# Colin Percival

> 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.

*Canadian programmer and computer scientist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/colin-percival

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** Canada
- **Status:** unknown
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 55.1
- **Momentum:** 17.7
- **Total followers across platforms:** 446

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/cperciva (@cperciva)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/colin.percival.56 (@colin.percival.56)
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-percival-8269672/ (@colin-percival-8269672)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.daemonology.net/
- **GITHUB**: https://github.com/cperciva (@cperciva, 446 followers)

## Sources
- [Colin Percival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Percival)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64743585)

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