Eric Hughes

Cypherpunk and author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

About

American mathematician and early cypherpunk. Author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993), which defined privacy as the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world and called for anonymous systems built on cryptography.

Writings

Eric Hughes · 1993 · 4 min·5:10

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Foundational text of the cypherpunk movement. Hughes argues that privacy in the electronic age cannot be granted by institutions — it must be seized through cryptography. "Cypherpunks write code."