| Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn | |
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| Other names | Bryce Wilcox |
| Known for | peer-to-peer hacker and cypherpunk |
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| zooko.com | |
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox), is a peer-to-peer hacker and cypherpunk known for his work on DigiCash, Mojo Nation, Mnet, Mixminion, and Tahoe-LAFS. He is the designer of multiple network protocols that incorporate such concepts as self-contained economies and secure reputation systems. He is the co-designer, along with Phil Zimmermann, of ZRTP.[1] Zooko is credited as the originator of Zooko's triangle, a schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers.
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He is currently working on the Tahoe Least-Authority Filesystem (or Tahoe-LAFS) a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem[2] released under GPL and Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPL) licences.