Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
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| 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 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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[edit] Work
[edit] Tahoe Least-Authority Filesystem
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.
[edit] References
- ^ About The Zfone Project
- ^ Wilcox-O'Hearn, Zooko, ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3, retrieved 20 April 2009
[edit] External links
- Zooko's web site
- Allmydata.org sponsors the Tahoe project
- Transitive Grace Period Public Licence ("TGPPL") v. 1.0
- Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem
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