"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must

come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions

to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for

centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret

handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow

for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do."

- Eric Hughes.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 9 March 1993.