Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
| Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn | |
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| Born |
Bryce Wilcox May 13, 1974 Phoenix, Arizona |
| Occupation | peer-to-peer hacker, cypherpunk |
| Employer | Least Authority Enterprises |
| Parent(s) |
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| Website | zooko.com |
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox May 13, 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based[1] computer security specialist known for his work on Tahoe-LAFS.
He is working on the Tahoe Least-Authority File Store (or Tahoe-LAFS), a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem[2][3] released under GPL and the TGPPL licenses. He is the creator of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL).[4]
Wilcox-O'Hearn is the designer of multiple network protocols that incorporate concepts such as self-contained economies and secure reputation systems.[5] He is a member of the development team of ZRTP[6] and the BLAKE2 cryptographic hash function.[7][8]
Zooko's triangle is named after Wilcox-O'Hearn, who described the schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers in 2001.[9]
He is founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in Boulder, Colorado.[1][10][11]
He was a developer of the MojoNation[12] P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network,[13] and a developer at SimpleGeo.[14]
Furthermore, Zooko is part of a founding team that recently launched Zcash.
References
- 1 2 DJ Pangburn (2013). "Introducing the PRISM-Proof Storage Device". Vice.
- ↑ Wilcox-O'Hearn, Zooko, ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3, retrieved 20 April 2009
- ↑ "Why Whack-a-Tard won't save music". The Register. April 22, 2009.
- ↑ Yee, Ka-Ping (2008). "An Open Source License Idea" (PDF).
- ↑ Peter Ferne (2008-11-21). "Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital".
- ↑ About The Zfone Project
- ↑ BLAKE2 designers
- ↑ "BLAKE2: simpler, smaller, fast as MD5" (PDF).
- ↑ "Security Usability of Petname Systems" (PDF). 2009. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04766-4_4.
- ↑ https://leastauthority.com/about_us/
- ↑ https://identi.ca/zooko
- ↑ "Get Your Music Mojo Working". Wired. July 29, 2000.
- ↑ "Cutting edge P2P, crypto comes to your PC". The Register. February 25, 2002.
- ↑ "Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces On A Six Aparter, A Hacker, And Beta Keys". TechCrunch. December 14, 2009.