[Cryptography] MAybe he's Adam Back, maybe not

[Bill Stewart]

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 04:16:06AM +0000, Peter Gutmann via cryptography wrote:
>>                             [...].  For example something that someone pointed
>> out was that I double-space at the end of sentences and (apparently) Satoshi
>> did too.  This isn't some personal quirk that identifies me as Satoshi but
>> something that anyone who learned to touch-type before maybe the mid-90s does
>> because that's how it was taught, and most people posting to cypherpunks in
>> 2008 would be from that era.  So it's not "double-space = Satoshi quirk", it's
>> "double-space = learned to touch-type".

The author also talked about the emails using antique typewriter fonts,
not realizing that no, we sent emails in ASCII that didn't specify what 
font the readers had to use, though most of us used monospace fonts that 
were good for code, and that does make the "yes, almost all of us 
learned to double-space after the end of a sentence" more visible.
Or that C++/C was the language we'd use for performance at the time,
though some remailers were written in perl or python.

And they clearly didn't get that they were telling the world
"This guy has keys worth $100B that you can decrypt with a $5 wrench."