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September 1992Origins & cultureCulture & communitydocumented

The cypherpunks mailing list convenes

A mailing list formed around the idea that cryptography, not legislation, would decide the future of privacy.

The list gathered the cryptographers, engineers and activists who would spend the next fifteen years proposing digital cash schemes and arguing about their failures. Its recurring premise was that useful privacy tools had to be deployed rather than asked for.