Merkle

Merkle and Merckle are surnames of German origin. It used to be the minimization of a variety of Old German given names like Markwart (meaning "guard of the frontier") or Markhard (meaning "strong frontier"). They may refer to:

Cryptography and computing

• Merkle–Damgård construction, a method of building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions
• Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, an early public key cryptosystem
• Merkle's Puzzles, an early construction for a public-key cryptosystem
• Merkle tree, a computer hash tree

People

Business

• Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), German entrepreneur
• Hans Lutz Merkle (1913–2000), German industrial manager and 1996 winner of the Adenauer-de Gaulle Prize
• Ludwig Merckle (born 1965), German businessman
• Philipp Daniel Merckle (born 1966), German entrepreneur

Religion

• Benjamin L. Merkle, professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, North Carolina
• Benjamin R. Merkle, president of New Saint Andrews College, Idaho
• Sebastian Merkle, Catholic theologian

Sport

• Andreas Merkle (born 1962), former German footballer
• Ed Merkle (1917–87), American football player
• Fred Merkle (1888–1956), American baseball player
• Hans Merkle (1918–1993), German football trainer and coach of 1. FC Köln

Other people

• Judith Merkle Riley (1942–2010), American writer, teacher and academic
• Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (born 1977), German game designer
• Ralph Merkle (born 1952), American computer scientist, public key cryptography pioneer, and nanotechnology advocate

Other uses

• Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary and Visitor's Center, Maryland, United States
• Merkle's Boner, a baserunning mistake in baseball

See also

• Merkel (surname)
• Merkel (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Merkle
• All pages with titles containing Merckle