[Cryptography] Satoshi's PGP key.

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 01:46:04 PST 2015


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Is there any chance that Satoshi works/worked for the
> NSA or equivalent?
>
> For a huge number of reasons, s/he couldn't publish
> under her/his own name, but may have gotten permission
> to do this project anyway, so long as s/he didn't make
> any personal profit on it.
>
> I can imagine that the NSA & GCHQ are still hurting
> at not getting proper credit for developing "public
> key" encryption, and they may not have wanted to see
> a long string of bad versions of bitcoins foisted
> upon the world when they already had a pretty good
> solution.

The NSA has proven to not be above doing things
that it can exploit / track / manage.



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