Mathematician:Ralph Charles Merkle

Mathematician

American computer scientist and mathematician.

One of the inventors of public-key cryptography

Inventor with Bailey Whitfield Diffie and Martin Edward Hellman of the technique of public key cryptography.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: February 2, 1952 in Berkeley, California, US

Theorems and Definitions

• Merkle Tree
• Merkle's Puzzles
• Merkle-Hellman Knapsack Cryptosystem (with Martin Edward Hellman)
• Merkle-Damgård Construction (with Ivan Bjerre Damgård)

• Diffie-Hellman-Merkle Key Exchange (with Bailey Whitfield Diffie and Martin Edward Hellman)

Definitions of concepts named for Ralph Charles Merkle can be found here.

Publications

• 1982: Secrecy, authentication, and public key systems