Merkle
Merkle and Merckle are surnames of German origin. They may refer to:
- People
- Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), German entrepreneur
- Ed Merkle (1917–87), American football player
- Fred Merkle (1888–1956), American baseball player
- Merkle's Boner, a baserunning mistake committed by Fred Merkle in 1908
- Hans Lutz Merkle (1913–2000), German industrial manager
- Hans Merkle (born 1918), German football trainer
- Ludwig Merckle (born 1965), German businessman.
- Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (born 1977), German game designer
- Philipp Daniel Merckle (born 1966), German entrepreneur
- Ralph Merkle (born 1952), American computer scientist, public key cryptography pioneer, and nanotechnology advocate
- Merkle–Damgård construction, a method of building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions devised by Ralph Merkle and by Ivan Damgård
- Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, an early public key cryptosystem, invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman
- Merkle's Puzzles, an early construction for a public-key cryptosystem, a protocol devised by Ralph Merkle
- Merkle tree, a computer hash tree, named after Ralph Merkle
- Judith Merkle Riley (1942–2010), American writer, teacher and academic
- Other uses
- Merkle, a pioneer motorcycle manufacturer
- Merkle Inc., an American customer relationship marketing (CRM) agency
See also
- Merkel (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Merkle
- All pages with titles containing Merckle
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