Ralph Merkle

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Ralph Merkle is an American computer scientist and cryptographer known as a pioneer of public-key cryptography and for contributions such as Merkle trees and Merkle–Damgård hashing.

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Ralph Merkle canonical 13
Ralph C. Merkle 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American person
computer scientist
cryptographer
human
almaMater University of California, Berkeley
awardReceived Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics
surface form: RSA Award for Mathematics
birthDate 1952-02-02
birthPlace Berkeley
surface form: Berkeley, California, United States
citizenship United States of America
contributedTo design of cryptographic hash functions
development of public-key cryptography
theory of digital signatures
degree PhD in electrical engineering
doctoralThesis Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
doctoralThesisYear 1979
employer Elxsi
Georgia Institute of Technology
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Xerox PARC
Zyvex
familyName Merkle
field computer science
cryptography
molecular nanotechnology
nanotechnology
givenName Ralph
hasConceptNamedAfter Merkle puzzles
Merkle tree
Merkle–Damgård construction
influenced distributed ledger technologies
modern blockchain design
knownFor Merkle
surface form: Merkle tree

Merkle–Damgård construction
cryptographic hashing
public key distribution system
public-key cryptography
work on nanotechnology
memberOf International Association for Cryptologic Research
name Ralph Merkle self-link
nationality United States of America
notableWork Merkle puzzles
Merkle
surface form: Merkle tree

Merkle–Damgård construction
surface form: Merkle–Damgård hash construction
position director at Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
faculty member at Georgia Institute of Technology
researcher at Xerox PARC

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Whitfield Diffie coInventedWith Ralph Merkle
Martin Hellman coInventedWith Ralph Merkle
Bailey coAuthor Ralph Merkle
subject surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie
Ralph Merkle name Ralph Merkle self-link
Merkle hasNotableBearer Ralph Merkle
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing foundedBy Ralph Merkle
this entity surface form: Ralph C. Merkle
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing hasFounder Ralph Merkle
this entity surface form: Ralph C. Merkle
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing hasKeyPerson Ralph Merkle
this entity surface form: Ralph C. Merkle
Merkle puzzles introducedBy Ralph Merkle
Merkle puzzles proposedBy Ralph Merkle
Merkle tree namedAfter Ralph Merkle
Merkle tree proposedBy Ralph Merkle