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WIRED’s 1993 Cypherpunk Cover Story Marks 32nd Anniversary
WIRED’s 1993 Cypherpunk Cover Story Marks 32nd Anniversary
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Three decades after WIRED magazine featured Tim May, Eric Hughes, and John Gilmore on its May 1993 cover, the crypto community reflects on the seminal "Crypto Rebels" article by Steven Levy. The piece chronicled the birth of public-key cryptography in 1975 through Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle—a breakthrough that wrested cryptographic control from government entities like the NSA.
Levy’s reporting revealed how cryptographic tools were classified as military weapons alongside conventional arms, framing the Cypherpunks’ mission to democratize privacy technology as both radical and inevitable. This ideological foundation would later inspire Bitcoin’s creation and the broader decentralized finance movement.
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