Zooko

Zooko

Zooko is a peer-to-peer hacker and cypherpunk known for his work on Digicash, Mojo Nation, mnet, and AllMyData. 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. Zooko is credited as the originator of Zooko's triangle, a schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers.

He is currently working on the Tahoe Least-Authority Filesystem.

External links

* [http://zooko.com/ Website]


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