Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn at 34c3 in 2017
Born Bryce Wilcox
May 13, 1974
Phoenix, Arizona
Occupation peer-to-peer hacker, cypherpunk
Employer Least Authority Enterprises
Parents
  • Ron Wilcox (father)
  • Olene Harris (mother)
Website zooko on Twitter

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox May 13, 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based computer security specialist, cypherpunk, and CEO of zCash.[1]

Biography

He is known for 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 launched Zcash in 2016.[15][16]

References

  1. 1 2 DJ Pangburn (2013). "Introducing the PRISM-Proof Storage Device". motherboard. Vice. Archived from the original on 2013-08-19.
  2. ↑ Wilcox-O'Hearn, Zooko, ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3, retrieved 20 April 2009
  3. ↑ "Why Whack-a-Tard won't save music". The Register. April 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ Yee, Ka-Ping (2008). "An Open Source License Idea" (PDF).
  5. ↑ Peter Ferne (2008-11-21). "Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital".
  6. ↑ zfoneproject (2010). "About The Zfone™ Project". Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  7. ↑ BLAKE2 designers
  8. ↑ Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, Christian Winnerlein (2013). "BLAKE2: simpler, smaller, fast as MD5" (PDF). IACR. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38980-1_8.
  9. ↑ "Security Usability of Petname Systems" (PDF). 2009. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04766-4_4.
  10. ↑ "About Us". Least Authority Enterprises. 2017. moved to Berlin in 2016
  11. ↑ "Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn". identi.ca. 2013-06-12.
  12. ↑ "Get Your Music Mojo Working". Wired. July 29, 2000.
  13. ↑ "Cutting edge P2P, crypto comes to your PC". The Register. February 25, 2002.
  14. ↑ "Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces On A Six Aparter, A Hacker, And Beta Keys". TechCrunch. December 14, 2009.
  15. ↑ Zooko (2017-12-29). "cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, etc.: revolutionary tech?". 34C3 (video). media.ccc.de. YouTube OSs3wzoVpl0. short answer: Yes!
  16. ↑ "What Investors Should Know Before Trading Zcash - CoinDesk". CoinDesk. 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2018-01-02.

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