Revision of Colin Percival
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| Image | — | 209523 |
| Subtitle | computer scientist | Canadian programmer and computer scientist |
| Description | — | Colin A. Percival is a Canadian computer scientist and computer security researcher. He completed his undergraduate education at Simon Fraser University and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. While at university he joined the FreeBSD project, and achieved some notoriety for discovering a security weakness in Intel's hyper-threading technology. Besides his work in delta compression and the introduction of memory-hard functions, he is also known for developing the Tarsnap online backup service, which became his full-time job. |
| Type | — | person |
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