User:Alextgordon/sandbox/Colin Percival
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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 | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Simon Fraser University University of Oxford |
| Known for | scrypt, PiHex, bsdiff, tarsnap, portsnap |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Cryptography |
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