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What HBO won´t tell you about Len Sassaman... What was he working on?🧵👇
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Len Sassaman built the first working mixnet called Mixmaster. Mixmaster allowed you to send email anonymously or pseudonymously and added protection against traffic analysis. http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net
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In his own words: "My research is centered around the topic of privacy enhancing technologies. In particular, I am focused on both attacking and defending anonymous communication systems" http://len.sassaman.net
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-Was Len Sassaman Satoshi? We do not know. -Was Len Sassaman critical of bitcoin´s lack of privacy? Yes -Was Len Sassaman building the the basis of mixnet systems that Nym is continuing to build today? Yes
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Will HBO talk about Len Sassaman vast research on privacy technology or only on theories around the hunt for Satoshi? We will see....
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