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Cryptographer Biographies
Every archived life recorded as cryptographer, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Contemporary era
Hal Finney
May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014
American software developer (1956-2014)
Contemporary era
Nick Szabo
b. April 5, 1964
American computer scientist
Contemporary era
Adam Back
b. 1970
British cryptographer
Contemporary era
Wei Dai
Cryptographer, creator of Crypto++, and author of the b-money proposal
Contemporary era
David Chaum
b. 1955
American computer scientist and cryptographer
Contemporary era
Silvio Micali
b. October 13, 1954
Italian-American computer scientist
Contemporary era
Pieter Wuille
b. September 10, 1984
Bitcoin Core developer
Contemporary era
Phil Zimmermann
b. February 12, 1954
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy
Contemporary era
Len Sassaman
April 9, 1980 – July 3, 2011
US computer systems engineer
Contemporary era
Ralph Merkle
b. February 2, 1952
American cryptographer and cryonicist (born 1952)
Stuart Haber
American cryptographer
W. Scott Stornetta
American physicist
Contemporary era
Dan Boneh
b. 1969
Israeli cryptographer
Contemporary era
Matthew D. Green
b. 1976
American cryptographer and researcher
Early Modern era
Thomas Jefferson
April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
Modern era
Alan Turing
June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954
Mathematician who founded computer science and broke Enigma
Modern era
Claude Shannon
April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)