1996 NSA paper on digital currency - Bitcoin?

[btcxindia]

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

[StewartJ]

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?

[raskul]

very interesting indeed. worth a read and some extra research leave him to his privacy, methinks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235289.msg2486292#msg2486292

[cryptologs]

A great find...  worth digging in deeper.

[RGBKey]

What if Satoshi was the NSA o.o

[weedo84]

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.

[DanielVG]

very interesting document, the anagram theory doesn't fit though.

[gogodr]

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..

[Gordon Bleu]

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?

[deforme]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKnZdrkEng and there is also a a paper which was written in 91 by him interesting

[die_hund]

If you think about it, it seems really impossible that someone built bitcoin as a thought exercise.

/tinfoil

[bitjoint]

Nice find! It has only been posted 1452 times since 2009!