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Len Sassaman was born on 9 April, 1980 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, US, is an American technologist and cryptographer (1980–2011). Discover Len Sassaman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 31 years old?

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Occupation Researcher, COSIC
Age 31 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 9 April 1980
Birthday 9 April
Birthplace Pottstown, Pennsylvania, US
Date of death 3 July, 2011
Died Place Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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His wife is Meredith L. Patterson (m. 2006)

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1980

Leonard Harris Sassaman (April 9, 1980 – July 3, 2011) was an American technologist, information privacy advocate, and the maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and operator of the randseed remailer.

Much of his career gravitated towards cryptography and protocol development.

1998

Sassaman graduated from The Hill School in 1998.

By 18, he was on the Internet Engineering Task Force responsible for the TCP/IP protocol underlying the internet.

It is speculated that he may have been the anonymous creator of the Bitcoin network.

He was diagnosed with depression as a teenager.

1999

In 1999, Len moved to the Bay Area, quickly became a regular in the cypherpunk community and moved in with Bram Cohen.

Sassaman was employed as the security architect and senior systems engineer for Anonymizer.

He was a PhD candidate at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, as a researcher with the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) research group, led by Bart Preneel.

David Chaum and Bart Preneel were his advisors.

Sassaman was a well-known cypherpunk, cryptographer and privacy advocate.

He worked for Network Associates on the PGP encryption software, was a member of the Shmoo Group, a contributor to the OpenPGP IETF working group, the GNU Privacy Guard project, and frequently appeared at technology conferences like DEF CON.

Sassaman was the co-founder of CodeCon along with Bram Cohen, co-founder of the HotPETS workshop (with Roger Dingledine of Tor and Thomas Heydt-Benjamin), co-author of the Zimmermann–Sassaman key-signing protocol, and at the age of 21, was an organizer of the protests following the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov.

2006

On February 11, 2006, at the fifth CodeCon, Sassaman proposed to returning speaker and noted computer scientist Meredith L. Patterson during the Q&A after her presentation, and they were married.

2009

In 2009, Dan Kaminsky presented joint work with Sassaman and Patterson at Black Hat in Las Vegas, showing multiple methods for attacking the X.509 certificate authority infrastructure.

Using these techniques, the team demonstrated how an attacker could obtain a certificate that clients would treat as valid for domains the attacker did not control.

CNBC India suggested Sassaman as a potential candidate to be Satoshi Nakamoto.

2011

The couple worked together on several research collaborations, including a critique of privacy flaws in the OLPC Bitfrost security platform, and a proposal of formal methods of analysis of computer insecurity in February 2011.

Meredith Patterson's current startup, Osogato, aims to commercialize Patterson's Support Vector Machine-based "query by example" research.

Sassaman and Patterson announced Osogato's first product, a downloadable music recommendation tool, at SuperHappyDevHouse 21 in San Francisco.

Sassaman is reported to have died on July 3, 2011.

Patterson reported that her husband's death was a suicide.

A presentation given by Kaminsky at the 2011 Black Hat Briefings revealed that a testimonial in honor of Sassaman had been permanently embedded into Bitcoin's blockchain.