researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; biopunk Steven Schear: creator of the warrant canary; street performer protocol; founding member of the International Financial Cryptographer's Association and GNURadio; team member at Counterpane; former Director at data security company Cylink and MojoNation Bruce Schneier*: well-known security author; founder of Counterpane Richard Stallman: founder of Free Software Foundation, privacy advocate Nick Szabo: inventor of smart contracts; designer of bit gold, a precursor to Bitcoin Wei Dai: Created b-money; cryptocurrency system and co-proposed the VMAC message authentication algorithm. The smallest subunit of Ether, the wei, is named after him. Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: DigiCash and MojoNation developer; founder of Zcash; co-designer of Tahoe-LAFS Jillian C. York: Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) John Young: anti-secrecy activist and co-founder of Cryptome Philip Zimmermann: original creator of PGP v1.0 (1991); co-founder of PGP Inc. (1996); co-founder with Jon Callas of Silent Circle * indicates someone mentioned in the acknowledgements of Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. See Also Anti-computer forensics References Further reading Andy Greenberg: This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information. Dutton Adult 2012, Punk Internet privacy