Merkle

Merkle and Merckle are surnames of German origin. It used as a minimization of Old German given names such as 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

Adolphe Merkle (1924–2012), Swiss Entrepreneur and patron of the sciences
Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), German entrepreneur
Edgar A. Merkle (1900–1984), American founder of Merkle Press in Washington, D.C. and Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary and Visitor's Center on the Patuxent River in Maryland
Hans Lutz Merkle [de] (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

Sport

Andreas Merkle (born 1962), former German footballer
Ed Merkle (1917–87), American football player
Fred Merkle (1888–1956), American baseball player
Hans Merkle [de] (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 cryptographer

Other uses

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