Part 6/19:
The speaker recounts their venture into creating a company called Zero Knowledge, launched in 1998, aimed at developing user-friendly encryption tools that would make secure communication the norm. The goal was to build an ecosystem similar to Netscape but for encryption — a "Netscape of cryptography" — that would enable anonymous identities, untraceable pseudonyms, and private internet communications routed over anonymized networks inspired by systems like David Chaum’s DC-net.