Cryptography + NSA + IBM + Cypherpunks + Hal Finney + Dorian "Satoshi" Nakamoto + Nick Szabo = Bitcoin

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I Connected The Dots... Research All These Links Below And You Will Come Up With My Equation In The Title.

What gave it away for Dorian "Satoshi" Nakamoto was that he was in the Libertarian Party like McAfee who is also a strong advocate for online freedom from government control/regulation and into Bitcoin. People just don't join that party without having strong political views on personal privacy and freedom and are usually technologically sound.

Dorian Nakamoto, then known as Satoshi Nakamoto, (left) in a 1967 yearbook photo from South Pasadena High School, and Hal Finney in a 1974 yearbook photo from nearby Arcadia High.

Bitcoin: Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto An inside look at the man behind Bitcoin

I personally believe Satoshi Nakamoto is Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto working with Nick Szabo & Hal Finney but I think Dorian left the project while Nick and Hal continued it.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmore_v._Gonzales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Croft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hughes_(cypherpunk)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk_anonymous_remailer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster_anonymous_remailer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonymous_remailer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoParty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_C._May

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyphernomicon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Milhon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_%26_Hardart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Professionals_for_Social_Responsibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moscaritolo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sameer_Parekh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko_Wilcox-O%27Hearn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zcash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Janke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Circle_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Ladar_Levison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

http://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%E2%80%93Hellman_knapsack_cryptosystem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%E2%80%93Damg%C3%A5rd_construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_and_Khafre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snefru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elxsi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rivest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shamir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Adleman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Biham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Levy

http://www.stevenlevy.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)

https://www.wired.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Thompson_(editor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Greenberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology

https://www.nist.gov/

Capstone (cryptography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstone_(cryptography)

Capstone is the name of a United States government long-term project to develop cryptography standards for public and government use. Capstone was authorized by the Computer Security Act of 1987[1] and was driven by the NIST and the NSA; the project began in 1993[2]. The initiative involved four standard algorithms: a data encryption algorithm called Skipjack, along with the Clipper chip that included the Skipjack algorithm, a digital signature algorithm, DSA, a hash function, SHA-1, and a key exchange protocol.[3] Capstone's first implementation was in the Fortezza PCMCIA card. All Capstone components were designed to provide 80-bit security.[4]
The initiative encountered massive resistance from the cryptographic community, and eventually the US government abandoned the effort. The main reasons for this resistance were concerns about Skipjack's design, which was classified, and the use of key escrow in the Clipper chip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(cipher)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Biryukov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_differential_cryptanalysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_(cipher)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm

https://www.google.com/patents/US5231668

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_P._Schnorr

https://www.google.com/patents/US4995082

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElGamal_signature_scheme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortezza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle

In cryptography, Kerckhoffs' principle (also called Kerckhoffs' desideratum, Kerckhoffs' assumption, axiom, or law) was stated by Dutch cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th century: A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
Kerckhoffs' principle was reformulated (or perhaps independently formulated) by American mathematician Claude Shannon as "the enemy knows the system",[1] i.e., "one ought to design systems under the assumption that the enemy will immediately gain full familiarity with them". In that form, it is called Shannon's maxim. In contrast to "security through obscurity", it is widely embraced by cryptographers.

Origins
In 1883 Auguste Kerckhoffs?[2] wrote two journal articles on La Cryptographie Militaire,[3] in which he stated six design principles for military ciphers. Translated from French, they are:[4]
The system must be practically, if not mathematically, indecipherable;
It should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands;
It must be possible to communicate and remember the key without using written notes, and correspondents must be able to change or modify it at will;
It must be applicable to telegraph communications;
It must be portable, and should not require several persons to handle or operate;
Lastly, given the circumstances in which it is to be used, the system must be easy to use and should not be stressful to use or require its users to know and comply with a long list of rules.
Some are no longer relevant given the ability of computers to perform complex encryption, but his second axiom, now known as Kerckhoffs's principle, is still critically important.
Explanation of the principle[edit]
Kerckhoffs viewed cryptography as a rival, and a better alternative than steganographic encoding, which was common in the nineteenth century for hiding the meaning of military messages. One problem with encoding schemes is that they rely on humanly-held secrets such as "dictionaries" which disclose for example, the secret meaning of words. Stenographic-like dictionaries, once revealed, permanently compromise a corresponding encoding system. Another problem is that the risk of exposure increases as the number of users holding the secret(s) increases.
Nineteenth century cryptography in contrast used simple tables which provided for the transposition of alphanumeric characters, generally given row-column intersections which could be modified by keys which were generally short, numeric, and could be committed to human memory. The system was considered "indecipherable" because tables and keys do not convey meaning by themselves. Secret messages can be compromised only if a matching set of table, key, and message falls into enemy hands in a relevant time frame. Kerckhoffs viewed tactical messages as only having a few hours of relevance. Systems are not necessarily compromised, because their components (i.e. alphanumeric character tables and keys) can be easily changed.

Modern-day twist
A modern-day twist to Kerckhoffs' tenets is the idea that the security of a cryptosystem should depend solely on the secrecy of the key and the private randomizer.[5] Another way of putting it is that a method of secretly coding and transmitting information should be secure even if everyone knows how it works. Of course, despite the attacker's familiarity with the system in question, the attacker lacks knowledge as to which of all possible instances is being presently observed.
This twist does not appeal to some cryptographers[who?], who opine that Kerckhoffs had no fetish for the secrecy of keys and was not opposed to keeping other components (i.e. tables, hashes, algorithms, protocols, etc.) of encryption systems "secret" so long as the system remains "indecipherable".
Advantage of secret keys[edit]
Using secure cryptography is supposed to replace the difficult problem of keeping messages secure with a much more manageable one, keeping relatively small keys secure. A system that requires long-term secrecy for something as large and complex as the whole design of a cryptographic system obviously cannot achieve that goal. It only replaces one hard problem with another. However, if a system is secure even when the enemy knows everything except the key, then all that is needed is to manage keeping the keys secret.
There are a large number of ways the internal details of a widely used system could be discovered. The most obvious is that someone could bribe, blackmail, or otherwise threaten staff or customers into explaining the system. In war, for example, one side will probably capture some equipment and people from the other side. Each side will also use spies to gather information.
If a method involves software, someone could do memory dumps or run the software under the control of a debugger in order to understand the method. If hardware is being used, someone could buy or steal some of the hardware and build whatever programs or gadgets needed to test it. Hardware can also be dismantled so that the chip details can be examined under the microscope.
Maintaining security[edit]
A generalization some make from Kerckhoffs' principle is: "The fewer and simpler the secrets that one must keep to ensure system security, the easier it is to maintain system security." Bruce Schneier ties it in with a belief that all security systems must be designed to fail as gracefully as possible:
Kerckhoffs' principle applies beyond codes and ciphers to security systems in general: every secret creates a potential failure point. Secrecy, in other words, is a prime cause of brittleness—and therefore something likely to make a system prone to catastrophic collapse. Conversely, openness provides ductility.[6]
Any security system depends crucially on keeping some things secret. However, Kerckhoffs's principle points out that the things kept secret ought to be those least costly to change if inadvertently disclosed.
For example, a cryptographic algorithm may be implemented by hardware and software that is widely distributed among users. If security depends on keeping that secret, then disclosure leads to major logistic difficulties in developing, testing, and distributing implementations of a new algorithm – it is "brittle". On the other hand, if keeping the algorithm secret is not important, but only the keys used with the algorithm must be secret, then disclosure of the keys simply requires the simpler, less costly process of generating and distributing new keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_escrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Circle_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN_workstation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_Silicon_Valley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Supercomputing_Conference

http://www.sun.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_calculator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_printing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-large-scale_integration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_and_Betty_Moore_Foundation

https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-is-satoshi-the-hal-finney-dorian-nakamoto-connection

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-bitcoin-founder-la-chased-20140306-story.html

Bitcoin’s Purported Founder Speaks Out

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dorian-satoshi-nakamoto-i-didnt-invent-bitcoin/

http://leahmcgrathgoodman.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_McGrath_Goodman

2014 bitcoin debacle[edit]
In a March 2014 Newsweek magazine cover story, McGrath Goodman published what she asserted to be the identity and location of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin.[10] The article has generated controversy for its methodology and conclusions.[11][12] Writing in Forbes magazine, Andy Greenberg stated that "Criticism of Newsweek’s article, which describes a silent standoff as reporter Leah McGrath Goodman’s stood at the end of Nakamoto’s driveway and was questioned by police, focused in particular on Goodman's decision to name Nakamoto’s family members and to publish a picture of his house."[13] Goodman wrote that when she asked him about bitcoin during a brief in-person interview, Nakamoto seemed to confirm his identity as the bitcoin founder by stating: "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it. It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."[10] (This quote was later confirmed by deputies at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who were present at the time.)[14] However, several hours later, Nakamoto's P2P Foundation account posted a message stating he was not the person in Newsweek's article.[15][16][17]

https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-is-satoshi-the-hal-finney-dorian-nakamoto-connection

A connection between the late computer scientist, Hal Finney, and Dorian Nakamoto could hold the answer to the creator of Bitcoin’s identity.

The identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been the cause of much speculation since the cryptocurrency was created. This has especially been the case in recent weeks after Craig Wright claimed to be the man himself. An oft-overlooked connection between the late computer scientist, Hal Finney, and Dorian Nakamoto, born Satoshi, could hold the answer.

Hal Finney
Hal Finney was a computer scientist and pre-Bitcoin cryptographic pioneer who was reportedly the first person, other than Satoshi Nakamoto, to use Bitcoin’s software, file bug reports, and make improvements. However, an acquaintance and co-blogger of Finney, Robin Hanson, supposed that was “at least” 15% sure that “Hal was more involved than he’s said”, though he later redacted these claims when new evidence arose.

Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
While Forbes journalist, Andy Greenberg, was investigating the identity of Satoshi, it was discovered that a man by the name of Dorian Nakamoto, born Satoshi, was living only a few blocks from Finney. His family home was facing foreclosure by his bank and the retiree was swiftly becoming a victim of the harsh financial climate in the United States.

While Dorian himself was initially investigated as many had suggested that he himself could be Satoshi, these claims were swiftly dismissed when Satoshi vehemently denied his involvement:

“I have nothing to do with bitcoin. I never worked for the company, I don't know any people there, I never had a contract there or anything like that. I wasn't even aware of the product,” he said.

The connection
Reddit user, /u/TaleRecursion, sums up the theory very well:

“I think he [Dorian] is the real person after whom the Satoshi persona was named. The coincidence of having a Satoshi Nakamoto living 2 blocks away from Hal Finney's home is just too improbable to be ignored.

Hal and his cypherpunk counterparts intended for this old friendly retired man whose house had been foreclosed by banksters to be the symbolic figure behind the financial renaissance on behalf of all the victims of the modern financial system. Satoshi is Dorian and I think it's just fine that way.”

Of course, this is far from concrete proof, and by no means proves Finney is Satoshi, but at the very least, it is surely fair to conclude that if Finney isn’t Satoshi, he must have at least told the ‘real’ Satoshi about his neighbour, Dorian.

A man with such a unique name living so close? I don’t think so.

Furthermore, when Greenberg asked the writing analysis consultancy firm, Juola & Associates, to compare a sample of Finney’s writing to a known sample of Satoshi Nakamoto’s, they concluded that its resemblance was closer than any other beforeseen sample, including candidates suggested by Newsweek, Fast Company, The New Yorker, Ted Nelson, and Skye Grey.

Greenberg suggested that Finney may have been writing on behalf of the real Nakamoto, or was instead using Dorian’s identity as a “drop” or “patsy whose personal information is used to hide online exploits.”

Finney ? Satoshi
Surprisingly however, after Greenberg met Finney, and saw the supposed email conversation between Finney and Satoshi, along with his Bitcoin wallet’s history that contained the very first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi to Finney, which he forgot to pay back, Greenberg resolved that Finney was telling the truth. In addition, Finney denied being Satoshi when questioned by Greenberg.

Moreover, when Juola & Associates analysed Satoshi’s emails to Finney, they found that they more closely resembled Satoshi’s other writings than Finney’s did.

Legacy
As part of his extropian beliefs, Finney believed that in the future, technology will have advanced such that it will be possible for humans to live forever through a technological medium. When Finney passed away in Phoenix on 28th August 2014, he was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation so that he could be ‘revived’ when the technology existed to allow him to continue living.

If this does eventually happen, and Finney is indeed ‘revived’, perhaps we will be able to put an end to the years-long debate over who Satoshi Nakamoto truly is, be that for the better or worse for Bitcoin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/idea.html

https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/

Nick Szabo (Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto?) Breaks his Silence with a Tweet
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/nick-szabo-bitcoin-founder-satoshi-nakamoto-breaks-silence-tweet/

The man everyone thinks is the creator of bitcoin gave a speech discussing the history of the technology
http://www.businessinsider.com/nick-szabo-ethereum-bitcoin-blockchain-history-satoshi-nakamoto-2015-11

How the Hunt for Satoshi Turned Dorian Nakamoto’s Life Upside Down: the Inside Story
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-the-hunt-for-satoshi-turned-dorian-nakamoto-s-life-upside-down-the-inside-story-1443721034/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin#Pre-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto

Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

Hal Finney on Bitcoin: In His Own Words
https://www.coindesk.com/hal-finney-bitcoin-words/

Hal Finney received the first Bitcoin transaction. Here’s how he describes it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/03/hal-finney-received-the-first-bitcoin-transaction-heres-how-he-describes-it/?utm_term=.19d10acf1b57

BITCOIN'S EARLIEST ADOPTER IS CRYONICALLY FREEZING HIS BODY TO SEE THE FUTURE
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/

Nakamoto's Neighbor: My Hunt For Bitcoin's Creator Led To A Paralyzed Crypto Genius
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/#74f749b74a37

Obituary
Hal Finney

Harold Finney, futurist and cypherpunk, died on August 28th, aged 58
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21615469-harold-finney-futurist-and-cypherpunk-died-august-28th-aged-58-hal-finney

Who is Satoshi? - The Hal Finney-Dorian Nakamoto Connection
https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-is-satoshi-the-hal-finney-dorian-nakamoto-connection

Dorian Nakamoto, Disputed Bitcoin Inventor, is Traffic Safety Advocate

A California man named Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto denies having anything to do with Bitcoin.

Writer who named 'Bitcoin guy': Right man

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