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Werner Koch

1961 - Today

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Werner Koch (born July 11, 1961) is a German free software developer. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG). He was also Head of Office and German Vice-Chancellor of the Free Software Foundation Europe. He is the winner of Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2015 for founding GnuPG. Journalists and security professionals rely on GnuPG, and Edward Snowden used it to evade monitoring whilst he leaked classified information from the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Koch has received more than 64,162 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Koch is the 212th most popular computer scientist (down from 186th in 2019), the 6,088th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,152nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Werner Koch ranks 212 out of 245. Before him are Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Maria Klawe, Craig Federighi, Nancy Lynch, Fei-Fei Li, and Stuart J. Russell. After him are John Ousterhout, Eric Allman, Tron, Dariusz Jemielniak, Phil Katz, and Bram Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Werner Koch ranks 710. Before him are Eddie Baza Calvo, Basil Gorgis, Brent Briscoe, Chris Pitman, Daniel M. Tani, and Bob Peterson. After him are Anke Behmer, Brett Dean, Gesine Lötzsch, John Thune, Takeshi Oki, and Guo Jianmei.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Koch ranks 6,088 out of 7,253. Before him are Ines Geissler (1963), Kathrin Schmidt (1958), Rob Thomas (1972), Leonie Benesch (1991), Tim Lobinger (1972), and Aaron Hunt (1986). After him are Andreas Kappes (1965), Jens Keller (1970), Anke Behmer (1961), Martina Schröter (1960), Dietmar Schauerhammer (1955), and Liv Lisa Fries (1990).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Werner Koch ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Rudolf Bayer (1939), Ian Murdock (1973), and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978). After him are Tron (1972), Denny Vrandečić (1978), and Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).

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