A calendar to remember days in Cypherpunk's history
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2 January 1993 - Crypto Rebels by Steven Levy , Wired article about cypherpunks
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3 January 2009 - Bitcoin genesis block, Bitcoin starts. link
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5 January 2012 - Cicada 3301 starts, One of the best cryptographic puzsles. link
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17 January 2019 - Collection #1 by Troy Hunt, Biggest data breach in history until now.
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23 January 2014 - Ethereum White Paper A NEXT GENERATION SMART CONTRACT & DECENTRALIZED APPLICATION PLATFORM, Ethereum paper. link
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3 March 1993 - A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes, Main principles about cypherpunks movement.
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28 March 1997 - Hashcash package 1st announced, Proof of work, A partial hash collision based postage scheme.
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May 21–23, 1991 - Numbers can be a better form of cash than paper by David Chaum
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May 31 - June 2, 2009 - Fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices by Craig Gentry, Homomorphic encryption has born. link
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5 June 1991 - PGP first release, PGP is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. link
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6 June 2013 - NSA PRISM by Edward Snowden, Prism, which internal NSA documents claim gives the agency "direct access" to data held by Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants.
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8 june 1949 - 1984 by George Orwell, The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda. link
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? June 1991 - Why I Wrote PGP by Philip Zimmermann
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20 July 2016 - The cypherpunk revolution by Thomas Rid, How the tech vanguard turned public-key cryptography into one of the most potent political ideas of the 21st century.
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30 July 2015 - Ethereum geneis block.
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8 August 2013 - Lavabit shuts down, Encrypted webmail service, this service was used by Edward Snowden. link
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9 August 2013 - Silent mail shuts down, Encrypted webmail service.
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14 August 2013 - Telegram first release, It is an instant messaging and voice over IP service developed
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9 September 1994 - THE CYPHERNOMICON by Tim May, It is a document written by Timothy C. May in 1994 for the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list. link
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20 September 2002 - TOR first release, Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. link
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20 September 2000 - RSA patent expired
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21 September 1992 - Cypherpunks mailing list starts, it was a very active forum with technical discussion ranging over mathematics, cryptography, computer science, political and philosophical discussion, personal arguments and attacks, etc., with some spam thrown in. link
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3 October 2013 - FBI shuts down Silk Road website
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17 October 2013 - CryptoNote v2.0 , Monero paper.link
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31 October 2008 - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Bitcoin paper.link
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6 November 1976 - New Directions in Cryptography by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Key exchange algorithm.
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20-22 November 1994 - Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer by Peter W. Shor
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22 November 1992 - The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Tim May, Main principles about cypherpunks movement.
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26 November 1998 - B-money Description, It was an early proposal created by Wei Dai for an "anonymous, distributed electronic cash system". Satoshi Nakamoto referenced b-money when creating Bitcoin link
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29 November 2013 - Tor hidden service first proposal, AKA Tor Rendezvous Specification.link
- ? December 1994 - Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities by Tim May
- 13 December 2019 - Tim May was
- ? Decemver 2006 - Psiphon 1.0 is released, It is a free and open-source Internet censorship circumvention tool.link
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? 1982 - Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments by David Chaum
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? 1988 - Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms by David Chaum
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? 1989 - DigiCash Inc. was an electronic money corporation founded by David Chaum
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? 1996 - E-gold was funded, It was a gold digital currencies.link
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? 2006 - Liberty Reserve was funded