Eric Hughes is an American mathematician, computer programmer, and

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. He is considered one of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, alongside Timothy C. May and John Gilmore. He is notable for founding and administering the Cypherpunk

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, authoring A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, creating and hosting the first

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, and coining the motto, "Cypherpunks write code". The May/June 1993 issue (vol. 1 no. 2) of ''

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'' featured a cover photo, credited to Larry Dyer, of three masked cypherpunks, of which Hughes was one. On September 27, 2012, Hughes delivered the keynote address, ''Putting the Personal Back in Personal Computers'', at the Amsterdam

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