What is "merkle"

Merkle and Merckle are surnames of German origin. They may refer to:

• Adolf Merckle (19342009), German entrepreneur
• Ed Merkle (191787), American football player
• Fred Merkle (18881956), American baseball player
  • Merkle's Boner, a baserunning mistake committed by Fred Merkle in 1908

• (19132000), German industrial manager

• (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 (19422010), American writer, teacher and academic

• Merkle, a pioneer motorcycle manufacturer
• Merkle Inc., an American customer relationship marketing (CRM) agency