IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2010) Computer History Museum Fellow (2011)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Public key cryptography, cryonics
Institutions
Singularity University
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Elxsi
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis
Secrecy, authentication and public key systems
Doctoral advisor
Martin Hellman
Website
www.ralphmerkle.com
Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics.
Merkle is a renowned cryptographer, known for devising Merkle's Puzzles, co-inventing the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, and inventing cryptographic hashing (Merkle–Damgård construction) and Merkle trees. He has worked as a manager at Elxsi, research scientist at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and a nanotechnology theorist at Zyvex. Merkle has held positions as a Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, senior research fellow at IMM, faculty member at Singularity University, and board member at Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2010 and has published works on molecular manipulation and self-replicating machines. Ralph Merkle is a grandnephew of baseball star Fred Merkle and is married to video game designer Carol Shaw. He serves on the board of directors of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation and appears in the science fiction novel The Diamond Age.
^Ralph Merkle 2011 Fellow Archived 2013-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
^Merkle, R. C. (1988). "A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function". Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO '87. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 293. pp. 369–378. doi:10.1007/3-540-48184-2_32. ISBN 978-3-540-18796-7.
Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the...
of the original commitment. The concept of a hash tree is named after RalphMerkle, who patented it in 1979. Hash trees can be used to verify any kind of...
signatures such as the Lamport signature scheme. It was developed by RalphMerkle in the late 1970s and is an alternative to traditional digital signatures...
Carl Frederick Rudolf Merkle (also sometimes documented as Frederick Charles Merkle; December 20, 1888 – March 2, 1956), nicknamed "Bonehead", was an...
of public-key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and RalphMerkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to the computer privacy debate, and...
academic Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (born 1977), German game designer RalphMerkle (born 1952), American cryptographer Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary and Visitor's...
the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and RalphMerkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced...
Snefru is a cryptographic hash function invented by RalphMerkle in 1990 while working at Xerox PARC. The function supports 128-bit and 256-bit output...
Machines (2004) by Robert Freitas and RalphMerkle. The Nanofactory Collaboration, founded by Freitas and Merkle in 2000, is a focused, ongoing effort...
National Museum of Play. Shaw lives in California and has been married to RalphMerkle, a researcher in cryptography and nanotechnology, since 1983. They are...
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anything that the laws of nature allow to exist." Drexler's colleague RalphMerkle has noted that, contrary to widespread legend, Drexler never claimed...
exchange (D–H) based on concepts developed by Hellman's PhD student RalphMerkle. The protocol enables users to securely exchange secret keys even if...
In cryptography, Khufu and Khafre are two block ciphers designed by RalphMerkle in 1989 while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Along with...
nanotechnology researchers: Feynman, Drexler, and RalphMerkle are seen among characters of the fresco in Merkle-Hall, where new nanotechnological items are...
CSL-98, SRI International, Oct. 1979. "A certified digital signature", RalphMerkle, In Gilles Brassard, ed., Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO '89, vol. 435...
Lars Knudsen, Denmark, co-inventor of the Serpent cipher. RalphMerkle, US, inventor of Merkle trees. Bart Preneel, Belgian, co-inventor of RIPEMD-160....
computational complexity theory Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem – one of the earliest public key cryptosystems invented by RalphMerkle and Martin Hellman in...
invention of public key cryptography with collaborators Whitfield Diffie and RalphMerkle at Stanford University in the mid-1970s. He also relates his subsequent...
Seedship Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitat For Human Stasis To Mars "Ralph-Merkle-Interview" (PDF). p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-30...
certificate and developed security for the Microsoft Internet Explorer. RalphMerkle (who wrote the Elxsi Fortran compiler) later became a noted nanotechnologist...
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