Assange has stated that he joined the list in late 1993 or early 1994.[1] An archive of his cypherpunks mailing list posts[45] is at the Mailing List Archives. Derek Atkins: computer scientist, computer security expert, and one of the people who factored RSA-129 Adam Back: inventor of Hashcash and of NNTP-based Eternity networks; co-founder of Blockstream Jim Bell: author of Assassination Politics' Steven Bellovin: Bell Labs researcher; later Columbia professor; Chief Technologist for the US Federal Trade Commission in 2012 Matt Blaze: Bell Labs researcher; later professor at University of Pennsylvania; found flaws in the Clipper Chip[46] Eric Blossom: designer of the Starium cryptographically secured mobile phone; founder of the GNU Radio project Jon Callas: technical lead on OpenPGP specification; co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of PGP Corporation; co-founder with Philip Zimmermann of Silent Circle Bram Cohen: creator of BitTorrent Lance Cottrell: original author of the Mixmaster Remailer software; founder of Anonymizer[46] Matt Curtin: founder of Interhack Corporation; first faculty advisor of the Ohio State University Open Source Club;[47] lecturer at Ohio State University Hugh Daniel (deceased): former Sun Microsystems employee; manager of the FreeS/WAN project (an early and important freeware IPsec implementation) Suelette Dreyfus: deniable cryptography co-inventor, journalist, co-author of Underground Hal Finney (deceased): cryptographer; main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP; designer of RPOW Eva Galperin: malware researcher and security advocate; Electronic Frontier Foundation activist[48] John Gilmore*: Sun Microsystems' fifth employee; co-founder of the Cypherpunks and the Electronic Frontier Foundation; project leader for FreeS/WAN Mike Godwin: Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer; electronic rights advocate Ian Goldberg*: professor at University of Waterloo; designer of the off-the-record messaging protocol Rop Gonggrijp: founder of XS4ALL; co-creator of the Cryptophone Sean Hastings: founding CEO of Havenco; co-author of the book God Wants You Dead[49] Johan Helsingius: creator and operator of Penet remailer Nadia Heninger: assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania; security researcher[50] Robert Hettinga: founder of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography; originator of the idea of Financial cryptography as an applied subset of cryptography[51] Mark Horowitz: author of the first PGP key server Tim Hudson: co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL Eric Hughes: founding member of Cypherpunks; author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Peter Junger (deceased): law professor at Case Western Reserve University Paul Kocher: president of Cryptography Research, Inc.; co-author of the SSL 3.0 protocol Ryan Lackey: co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven Brian LaMacchia: designer of XKMS; research head at Microsoft Research Ben Laurie: founder of The Bunker, core OpenSSL team member, Google engineer. Morgan Marquis-Boire: researcher, security engineer, and privacy activist Matt Thomlinson (phantom): security engineer, leader of Microsoft's security efforts on Windows, Azure and Trustworthy Computing, CISO at Electronic Arts Timothy C. May (deceased): former Assistant Chief Scientist at Intel; author of A Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and the Cyphernomicon; a founding member of the Cypherpunks mailing list Jude Milhon (deceased; aka "St. Jude"): a founding member of the Cypherpunks mailing list, credited with naming the group; co-creator of Mondo 2000 magazine Vincent Moscaritolo: founder of Mac Crypto Workshop;[52] Principal Cryptographic Engineer for PGP Corporation; co-founder of Silent Circle and 4th-A Technologies, LLC Sameer Parekh: former CEO of C2Net and co-founder of the CryptoRights Foundation human rights non-profit Vipul Ved Prakash: co-founder of Sense/Net; author of Vipul's Razor; founder of Cloudmark Runa Sandvik: Tor developer, political advocate Len Sassaman (deceased): maintainer of the Mixmaster Remailer software; 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[53] and GNURadio; team member at Counterpane; former Director at data security company Cylink and MojoNation Bruce Schneier*: well-known security author; founder of Counterpane Nick Szabo: inventor of smart contracts; designer of bit gold, a precursor to Bitcoin 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)[54] John Young: anti-secrecy activist and co-founder of Cryptome Philip Zimmermann: original creator of PGP v1.0 (1991); co-founder of PGP Inc.