Adam Back

Adam Back is a British cryptographer , computer scientist and hacker .

He is the inventor of Hashcash , a proof-of-work system to protect against e-mail spam and other denial-of-service attacks . He wrote credlib, a program library that implements the credentials systems of Stefan Brands and David Chaum . He was the first to formulate the non-interactive forward secrecy security property for e-mail and the first to notice that any identity-based encryption can be used to provide non-interactive forward secrecy. He is also known for pioneering the use of ultra-compact code in signature files .

history

Adam Back began actively participating in cryptography mailing lists in the 1990s . During this time he wrote many scientific papers.

In December 1995 he obtained a doctorate in computer science with the dissertation "Parallelization of General Purpose Programs using Optimistic Techniques from Parallel Discrete Event Simulation."

He was the first person who knew about Bitcoin after Satoshi Nakamoto , as he sent him an initial attempt at the white paper in 2008. To date, Back has not made this email public, but has been confirmed by an email between Satoshi and Wei Dai.

In 2014 he founded Blockstream , a company that is involved in the further development of Bitcoin.

Web links

• Personal Website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adam Back's home page. Retrieved May 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Satoshi and Wei Dai Correspondence. August 22, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2019 (American English). 
3. ↑ About. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .