Topics
00:01:12 - Introduction to Phil Zimmerman
00:02:49 - 1990s Cypherpunk Scene
00:05:00 - Early Internet Mailing List Debates
00:05:21 - Phil Zimmerman's Criminal Investigation
00:05:58 - PGP Licensing and MIT's Role
00:07:11 - Open Source Software Before PGP
00:07:32 - Motivations for Open Sourcing PGP
00:09:13 - Open Source and Potential Risks
00:09:44 - NSA's Concerns about PGP Source Code
00:11:02 - Public Key Cryptography in PGP
00:12:02 - Phil Zimmerman's Shift from Coding
00:12:28 - Hal Finney's Contributions to PGP
00:13:37 - Hal Finney's Early Bitcoin Ideas
00:15:03 - Proof of Work and Double Spending
00:17:48 - Phil Zimmerman's Thoughts on Digital Currency
00:18:19 - Phil Zimmerman's Interest in Secure Telephony
00:19:15 - Silent Phone and Secure Communication
00:20:37 - Encryption Speed and Latency
00:21:11 - Network Latency in Encrypted Communication
00:22:41 - Phil Zimmerman's Introduction to Bitcoin
00:23:30 - Bitcoin's Double Spending Problem
00:24:05 - Phil Zimmerman's Focus on Communication Privacy
00:24:16 - Bitcoin's Criminality and Carbon Footprint
00:26:39 - Improving Bitcoin's Design
00:27:32 - Alternative Cryptography Projects
00:28:27 - David Chaum's xx network and Patents
00:30:21 - Shamir's Secret Sharing and Bitcoin
00:31:32 - Phil Zimmerman's Current Work
00:31:48 - Government Pushback on Encryption
00:32:35 - China's Network Influence and Encryption
00:33:46 - Huawei as a National Security Risk
00:35:12 - Following Phil Zimmerman's Work