Full Name Adam Back Name Adam Back Known for hashcash | Occupation Cryptographer Nationality British Residence Sliema, Malta | |
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Born July 1970 (age 45) London, England, UK Similar Nick Szabo, Hal Finney (computer scientist), Craig Steven Wright | ||
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Adam Back (born July 1970) is a British cryptographer and crypto-hacker.
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He is the inventor of hashcash, the proof-of-work system used by several anti-spam systems. A similar system is used in bitcoin. Hashcash has also been used in a number of other protocols such as combating blog spam, and defending against user namespace pollution.
He implemented credlib, a library that implements the credential systems of Stefan Brands and David Chaum.
He was the first to formalize the Non-Interactive Forward-Secrecy security property for email and to observe that any Identity Based Encryption scheme can be used to provide Non-Interactive Forward Secrecy.
He is also known for pioneering the use of ultra-compact code with his 3-line RSA in Perl signature file and non-exportable T-shirts to protest the (now relaxed) United States cryptography export regulations.
Today he is CEO of Blockstream, a company that seeks to further the development of bitcoin and blockchain technology.
He has a computer science Ph.D. from University of Exeter.