User:Alextgordon/sandbox/Colin Percival

Colin Percival is a Canadian computer scientist and cryptographer known for creating the scrypt password hashing algorithm, the bsdiff binary diff algorithm, and the tarsnap backup service.

Colin Percival
NationalityCanadian
Alma materSimon Fraser University
University of Oxford
Known forscrypt, PiHex, bsdiff, tarsnap, portsnap
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Cryptography


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