Excellent article and great overview of an epochal era in cryptography history.

I know that this was not to be an exhaustive list, but given the context, I thought Alan Turing was a notable exception and IMHO should be included.

This cemented the parallel to Turing in my mind. I don't want to beleaguer the point, or take away from the quality of the article, so I will conclude by saying that listing Sassaman with Turing puts him into the well deserved highly elevated sphere of monumentally influential cryptographers who died by suicide.

This was one of my earliest shares: #5202

Sometimes people are high functioning with machines but more troubled than usual elsewhere.

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I really like this story.

It doesn't matter if he's actually Satoshi or not. Len was a great person.

It's really crazy when you think about it. Most of the technology we use these days is supported or was invented by a small amount of people.

That actually makes sense, I mean not that Len killed himself but the notion that Satoshi could be him or faced a similar demise. Both a truly brilliant minds, but not for this era. (see Tesla story, we have seen this before)