John Pacific is Cryptography Engineering at NuCypher. Privacy Insurrectionist, anarchist, noise artist, entrepreneur, aspie software dev, feminist, and cypherpunk. John is an entrepreneur, cypherpunk, and cryptography engineer specializing in privacy-preserving technology. He was a founding engineer at the NuCypher project, working on Proxy Re-encryption and Fully Homomorphic Encryption research. He is a strong believer in radical privacy and free software. He believes that liberty will only persist if people take direct-action in building replacements for technology that aim to restrict our collective freedoms.