Colin Percival | |
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 Percival in 2019 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Known for | Computer security |
| Notable work | |
| Website | www |
Colin A. Percival (born c. 1980) 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.