cypherpunk
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Alternative forms
- cipherpunk (rare)
Etymology
Blend of cipher + cyberpunk, coined by American hacker and author Jude Milhon (St. Jude) in 1992.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cypherpunk (plural cypherpunks)
- (computing) A person with an interest in encryption and privacy, especially one who uses encrypted email.
- Coordinate term: crypto-anarchist
References
- Laurent Gayard (2018) Darknet: Geopolitics and Uses, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 85: “The term “cypherpunk” itself was created by Jude Milhon, a U.S. civil rights activist from the 1960s and pioneer computer scientist, with a play on words between “cypher”, which means “encrypt”, the term “punk” […] and the term “cyberpunk”, […]”
Further reading
cypherpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “cypherpunk”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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