Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox), is known for his work on Tahoe-LAFS. He is the designer of multiple network protocols that incorporate such concepts as self-contained economies and secure reputation systems. He is a member of the development team of ZRTP. He was a developer of the MojoNation P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network, and a developer at SimpleGeo. 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 (or Tahoe-LAFS) a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem released under GPL and Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL) licences.