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Paul Le Roux

Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux is a skilled programmer and has created several pieces of open source cryptography software. Despite countless brushes with the law, Le Roux was a regular contributor on the Cypherpunk mailing list.

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Could Paul Roux be Satoshi Nakomoto

Age

49

Loc

USA

Nat

ZIM

Timeline

1999

E4M

In 1999, Paul Le Roux announced E4M to the Cypherpunk mailing list, an open-source disk encryption platform. The software was written in C++ — the same programming language which is behind the Bitcoin protocol—meaning there was a good chance Satoshi used Le Roux’s work when creating Bitcoin.Source

2004

TRUECRYPT

Many believe Le Roux to be the anonymous creator of TrueCrypt, a source-available software used for on-the-fly encryption. The software became a popular way for people to secure their desktop Bitcoin wallets; so much so that evidence suggests even Nakamoto himself used TrueCrypt to secure his Bitcoin stash.Source

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