[gioele]

> I cannot find him anywhere if not for the email address he sent me years later, and no other mention of life exists.

I guess his job does not involve participating in projects that have git repositories or public mailing lists.

[wereHamster]

That is just not true. The email address in git does not need to exist. It just has to look like one, you can use for example `[e-mail]`.

[616c]

Moreover, I know more important and intelligent people than I are interested in such things, but if you want a C++ SCM system that has strong signing and allows for pseudo-anonymous development, check out Monotone. I had trouble using it and building it with Lua 5.2 after core Lua API changes. Nonetheless, it is what the I2P project uses, and i assume they take such things seriously for a reason.