The notion of timelock encryption was first introduced on the Cypherpunks mailing list in 1993 by the founder of the crypto-anarchist movement, Tim May, and to date, while there have been numerous attempts to tackle it, none have been deployed at scale, nor made available to be used in any practical way. We have recently changed this status-quo by releasing a free, open-source tool that can finally achieve the lofty goal of encrypting things that cannot be decrypted until a given time has com...
