Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn | |
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| Born | Bryce Wilcox |
| Occupation(s) | peer-to-peer hacker, cypherpunk |
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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 Filesystem (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. He is a member of the development team of ZRTP.[5]
Zooko's triangle is named after Wilcox-O'Hearn. It is a schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers.
He is founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in Boulder, Colorado.[6][7][8]
He was a developer of the MojoNation[9] P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network,[10] and a developer at SimpleGeo.[11]
References
- ^ http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/least-authoritys-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-talks-about-his-prism-proof-storage-device
- ^ 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. 22 April 2009.
- ^ Yee, Ka-Ping (2008). "An Open Source License Idea" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|conference=ignored (help) - ^ About The Zfone Project
- ^ http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/least-authoritys-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-talks-about-his-prism-proof-storage-device
- ^ https://leastauthority.com/about_us/
- ^ https://identi.ca/zooko
- ^ "Get Your Music Mojo Working". Wired. 29 July 2000.
- ^ "Cutting edge P2P, crypto comes to your PC". The Register. 25 February 2002.
- ^ "Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces On A Six Aparter, A Hacker, And Beta Keys". TechCrunch. 14 December 2009.
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