Ralph Merkle
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| Born | February 2, 1952 Berkeley, California, US |
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| Spouse | Public key cryptography, cryonics |
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| Thesis | Secrecy, authentication and public key systems |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Hellman |
| Website | www |
Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of
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.
Contributions
While an undergraduate, Merkle devised
hash function.Career
Merkle was the manager of
Personal life
Ralph Merkle is a grandnephew of baseball star
Merkle is on the board of directors of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation.[10]
Merkle appears in the science fiction novel The Diamond Age, involving nanotechnology.
Awards
- 1996 Public Key Cryptography.[11]
- 1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for computational modeling of molecular tools for atomically-precise chemical reactions[12]
- 1999 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award[13]
- 2000 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics for the invention of public key cryptography.[14]
- 2008 International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR) fellow for the invention of public key cryptography.[15]
- 2010 IEEE Hamming Medal for the invention of public key cryptography[16]
- 2011 Computer History Museum Fellow "for his work, with Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, on public key cryptography."[17]
- 2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame, for the invention of public key cryptography[18]
- 2012 National Cyber Security Hall of Fame inductee
References
- ^ Ralph Merkle 2011 Fellow Archived 2013-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-3-540-18796-7.
- ^ Garfinkel, Simson (1994). Pretty Good Privacy. O'Reilly and Associates.
- ^ Ilya Mironov. "Hash Functions: From Merkle–Damgård to Shoup" (PDF).
- ^ intrigano. "Cryptofraphy (sic) The Merkle Damgard Paradigm collision resistance". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021.
- Georgia Institute of Technology. July 15, 2003. Archived from the originalon September 5, 2006. Retrieved March 17, 2007.
- IEEE. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ISBN 1570596905.
- ^ a b "Ralph C. Merkle". ralphmerkle.com. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
My wife is Carol Shaw. My sister, Judith Merkle Riley, wrote historical novels. My father, Theodore Charles Merkle, ran Project Pluto. My great uncle was Fred Merkle, of baseball fame.
- ^ "Alcor Board of Directors". Alcor Life Extension Foundation. September 1, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ^ "Ralph Merkle - Award Winner". ACM. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology". Foresight.org. September 4, 1998. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award". IEEE. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "Information Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance - EMC". RSA. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "Ralph Merkle, IACR Fellow". Iacr.org. 2008. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "CISAC's scholars awarded for invention of public key cryptography". Stanford University. December 9, 2009. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "Computer History Museum | Fellow Awards - Ralph Merkle". Computerhistory.org. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ "Invent Now | Hall of Fame | Induction | 2011 Inductees". Invent.org. February 2, 1952. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
References
- Ralph C. Merkle, Secrecy, authentication, and public key systems (Computer science), UMI Research Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8357-1384-9.
- ISBN 1-57059-690-5.
- Paul Kantor (Ed), Gheorghe Mureşan (Ed), Fred Roberts (Ed), ISBN 3-540-25999-6.
- Interview at Death in the Deep Freezedocumentary (August 2, 2006)
- Nova Southeastern University, Nanotechnology Expert Ralph Merkle to Speak on "Life and Death" (August 2008)
External links
- Oral history interview with Martin Hellman – from 2004, Palo Alto, California. Steve Pohlig(the Pohlig–Hellman system) and others.
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