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Title: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: btcxindia on February 17, 2014, 03:25:06 PM Hmmm.... NSA wrote a paper on digital currency in 1996
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm there's someone named Tatsuaki Okamoto who was involved, the name is close to Satoshi Nakamoto when arranged, an anagram if you will.... As many of you know NSA is also behind SHA-256 which Bitcoin uses "SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) ..." www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: StewartJ on February 17, 2014, 04:07:06 PM Hmmm.... NSA wrote a paper on digital currency in 1996 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm there's someone named Tatsuaki Okamoto who was involved, the name is close to Satoshi Nakamoto when arranged, an anagram if you will.... As many of you know NSA is also behind SHA-256 which Bitcoin uses "SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) ..." www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 Nice Find! A prophetic white paper, or the blueprint for Bitcoin? Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: raskul on February 17, 2014, 04:08:55 PM very interesting indeed. worth a read and
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235289.msg2486292#msg2486292 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235289.msg2486292#msg2486292) Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: cryptologs on February 17, 2014, 04:23:23 PM A great find... ;) worth digging in deeper.
Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: RGBKey on February 17, 2014, 04:53:46 PM What if Satoshi was the NSA o.o
Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: weedo84 on February 17, 2014, 05:46:01 PM Sounds interesting, Do you think NSA is going to be that creative though?, sounds like a find me if you can romance letter if that's the case.
Satoshi Nakamoto --> Tatsuaki Okamoto Nah,, come to think of it... Satoshi Nakamoto very much sounds like a generic constructed name.. hmm.. People have been working on so many cryptography projects in the early 90s though. Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: DanielVG on February 17, 2014, 10:50:43 PM very interesting document, the anagram theory doesn't fit though.
Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: gogodr on February 17, 2014, 11:01:05 PM The NSA was the actual creator of the SHA 256 encryption algorithm so it is not that far fetched to think that Satoshi Nakamoto could have been a member of the NSA..
Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: Gordon Bleu on February 18, 2014, 01:00:23 PM Does that mean, it would be better that you sell all your Coins before a SHA256 Collision happens? because the Governement Funding will cease? Or will it go on with SHA512?
Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: deforme on February 20, 2014, 03:51:44 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKnZdrkEng and there is also a a paper which was written in 91 by him interesting
Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: die_hund on February 28, 2014, 09:05:09 AM If you think about it, it seems really impossible that someone built bitcoin as a thought exercise.
/tinfoil Title: Re: 1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin? Post by: bitjoint on February 28, 2014, 08:18:37 PM Nice find! It has only been posted 1452 times since 2009!
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