Merkle
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Merkle can refer to any of the following:
- Merkle, a pioneer motorcycle manufacturer
- Merkle–Damgård construction – A method to build cryptographic hash functions.
- Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem
- Merkle's PuzzlesMerkle's PuzzlesIn cryptography, Merkle's Puzzles is an early construction for a public-key cryptosystem, a protocol devised by Ralph Merkle in 1974 and published in 1978. It allows two parties to agree on a shared secret by exchanging messages, even if they have no secrets in common...
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- Ed MerkleEd MerkleEdward Lee Merkle was an American football guard in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Oklahoma State University....
- Fred MerkleFred MerkleFrederick Charles Merkle , also known as "Bonehead" Merkle, was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball...
, American baseball star, involved in Merkle's Boner. - Hans Merkle (born 1918), German football trainer
- Hans Lutz Merkle (1913-2000), a German manager
- Judith Merkle RileyJudith Merkle RileyJudith Merkle Riley was a U.S. writer and academic who wrote six historical romance novels from 1988 to 1999.-Biography:...
- Marcel-André Casasola MerkleMarcel-André Casasola MerkleMarcel-André Casasola Merkle is a game designer.Until now, he published thirteen games and illustrated over 20. Together with other designers, he is active as a game editor since 1999 . He is co-founder of the publishing company Lookout Games...
(born 1977), a German game designer - Ralph C. MerkleRalph MerkleRalph C. Merkle is a researcher in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics...
, computer scientist, public key cryptography pioneer, and nanotechnologyNanotechnologyNanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
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