{
  "firstname": "Len",
  "lastname": "Sassaman",
  "handle": "",
  "birth": "1980",
  "death": "2011",
  "obituary": "",
  "issue": "6",
  "affiliations": "",
  "mainimage": "/images/Len_Sassaman.jpg",
  "maintext": "<p>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.</p>",
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      "sitename": "Wikipedia",
      "siteurl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    }
  ],
  "contributions": [],
  "gallery": [
    {
      "url": "/images/Len_Sassaman.jpg",
      "title": "Len Sassaman at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress",
      "caption": "By Alexander Klink - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12477326"
    }
  ]
}