Colin Percival

Colin Percival
Percival in 2019
Born	Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Occupation	Computer scientist
Years active	1998–present
Known for	Computer security
Notable work	PiHex portsnap Tarsnap scrypt
Website	www.daemonology.net

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.