Len has been described as a cypherpunk in some accounts recently. Nothing shows up for him in the cpunks archives for 1992-98. Did he use a pseudonym or just not post to the list? How about the Cryptography list?
On 2011-07-04, John Young wrote:
Len has been described as a cypherpunk in some accounts recently. Nothing shows up for him in the cpunks archives for 1992-98. Did he use a pseudonym or just not post to the list? How about the Cryptography list?
I believe he has been described as such because he was appreciated by resident punks, and because he became the maintainer of Mixmaster, which was such a visible piece of software in the cypherpunk vein. I believe he was mentioned time and again, but I'm not sure he actually posted to the list. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
At 04:46 PM 7/4/2011, John Young wrote:
Len has been described as a cypherpunk in some accounts recently. Nothing shows up for him in the cpunks archives for 1992-98. Did he use a pseudonym or just not post to the list? How about the Cryptography list?
Len was a young guy when he showed up. He was 31 this year, so he would have been 19 in 1999, which is the earliest email I still have from him (though my archives for the 90s are pretty incomplete.) In addition to the mailing lists, he was coming to the Bay Area Cypherpunks meetings while those were still happening, at least at Stanford.
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, John Young wrote:
Len has been described as a cypherpunk in some accounts recently. Nothing shows up for him in the cpunks archives for 1992-98. Did he use a pseudonym or just not post to the list? How about the Cryptography list?
I don't think he was posting until late 98/early 99 based upon the post by his friend. //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.
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