Eric Hughes is an American mathematician, computer programmer, and cypherpunk. He is considered one of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, alongside Timothy C. May and John Gilmore. [1] [2] He is notable for founding and administering the Cypherpunk mailing list, [3] authoring A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, [4] [5] creating and hosting the first anonymous remailer, [1] [6] [7] [8] and coining the motto, "Cypherpunks write code". [6]
The May/June 1993 issue (vol. 1 no. 2) of Wired featured a cover photo, credited to Larry Dyer, of three masked cypherpunks, of which Hughes was one. [1] [9]
On September 27, 2012, Hughes delivered the keynote address, Putting the Personal Back in Personal Computers, at the Amsterdam CryptoParty. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) – Also available at: https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/FidoNet/Fido-FidoNet-folder.zip Archived 2023-09-17 at the Wayback Machine path Fido-FidoNet-folder/FILES/fidonet-history/publicke.art, https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1992/10/msg00078.html, http://textfiles.serverrack.net/bbs/FIDONET/JENNINGS/STANDARDS/keys.doc.txt Archived 2023-09-17 at the Wayback Machine , and https://www.scribd.com/document/203979356/Cypherpunk-Mailing-List-1992 Archived 2022-07-28 at the Wayback Machine (starting at page 115).Eric Hughes, a mathematician who worked briefly for David Chaum's 'DigiCash' outfit, described anonymous remailers implemented in Perl and now running.
Eric Hughes, the author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto nearly two decades before, delivered the keynote address, Putting the Personal Back in Personal Computers, at the Amsterdam CryptoParty on 2012-09-27.