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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 .
Ralph C. Merkle. Email: merkle@ralphmerkle.com. Home page: ralphmerkle.com. Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Co-founder, Nanofactory Collaboration. Director, Alcor. Life is good. More is better. Research interests.
Jun 14, 2024 · Since 1988, Merkle has been researching nanotechnology and, in 2003, became a distinguished professor at Georgia Tech before returning to California in 2006. He has been awarded the RSA Award in Mathematics (2000) and the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2010).
Feb 24, 2016 · Ralph Merkle is a computer scientist, researcher, and leading proponent of molecular manufacturing, one of the major theoretical approaches to nanotechnology. He is also well-known for his pioneering work in the field of cryptography.
Ralph Merkle, who was born in Berkeley, was an undergraduate studying Computer Science at Cal in the early 1970s when he devised a scheme for communicating over an insecure channel for a classroom assignment. Known as Merkle’s Puzzles, this key exchange protocol is now recognized as one of the earliest examples of public key cryptography.
Aug 29, 2015 · Ralph C. Merkle was born in 1952, and gained an M.S degree in 1997, and his Ph.D, entitled "Secrecy, authentication and public key systems" at Stanford University in 1979.
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Ralph Merkle invented the public key cryptosystem, an innovative method for securing electronic communications.
