The Cypherpunk Manifesto published by Eric Hughes on March 9, 1993, formally clarified the development direction and vision of the community:
- believer in anarchy
- leaning toward liberalism
- Best of all, cypherpunks write code!
As the community develops naturally in the form of a mailing list, the community becomes more and more popular. There is always a constant idea in community discussions, which is to continuously propose and modify the digital currency system, making the community a cryptocurrency theory idea. Concentration camp and became the logical blueprint for the solution of Bitcoin itself. Several important figures were born in the community and have influenced the entire crypto community to this day.
- Julian Assange, founder of Wikipedia
- Wei Dai, founder of B-money
- Nick Szabo (Nick Szabo), proposed the concept of bit Gold and smart contracts
- Hal Finney, Reusable Proof of Work (RPOW)
- Adam Back, co-founder of Blockstream
- Craig Wright, founder of Bitcoin SV
- Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, ZCash CEO
- Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum
The community summarizes technologies and systems around anonymity, spam prohibition, and cryptographic output (part):
Anonymous
- Anonymizer: A service that allows you to browse the web without revealing any personal information.
- iProxy: proxy-based middleware
- Onion Routing: A naval research project dedicated to building an Internet system that is highly resistant to traffic analysis, eavesdropping, etc.
- Zero-knowledge systems: Privacy technology that enables you to manage your identity on the Internet.
- Forward mailer and privacy-enhanced email
- Hushmail: Web-based email with end-to-end security.
- Mixmaster: The next generation of forwarders.
censorship-proof
- Eternity Service: Distributed document storage.
- Free haven: distributed data storage system.
- The Freenet Project: A peer-to-peer network that distributes information in an efficient manner on the Internet.
- Janus: Anonymity of content providers in the World Wide Web.
- Mojo Nation: Create a digital marketplace for exchanging free disk space, bandwidth, and CPU cycles.
Algorithms and codes
- AES - Advanced Encryption Standard.
- Cryptix - Open source encryption software library.
- Cryptopp.com - A public domain cryptography library.
- OpenSSL.org - Based on the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.
- PGP - Used for email privacy programs and for applying digital signatures to messages without encrypting them.
- SDSI - Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure
Protocol
- Fling - A new set of Internet protocols that perform the functions of DNS, TCP and UDP in an untraceable and unapplicable way.
- IP Security Protocol (IPSEC) - Designed to support a flexible combination of authentication, integrity, access control and confidentiality.