S14 E15: Phil Zimmermann on Bitcoin, Cryptography & PGP

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36m 1s

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