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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 United States National Security Agency. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Koch is the 223rd most popular computer scientist (down from 212th in 2024), the 6,190th most popular biography from Germany (down from 6,089th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Werner Koch ranks 223 out of 245. Before him are Bram Cohen, Terry A. Davis, Eric Allman, Nancy Lynch, Douglas Crockford, and Steve Wilhite. After him are Gottfrid Svartholm, Vincent Rijmen, John Ousterhout, Tron, David Jones, and Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Werner Koch ranks 756. Before him are Robert Verbeek, Mark Kelly, Andrew Airlie, Jorge Guasch, Gary Winick, and Ali Hussein Shihab. After him are Bruce Cohen, Anne Donovan, Carlo Rota, Dale Frail, Akimasa Nakamura, and Ryan Zinke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Koch ranks 6,193 out of 7,253. Before him are Katja Kipping (1978), Apparat (1978), Florian Lukas (1973), Andreas Stähle (1965), Beate Schramm (1966), and Germar Rudolf (1964). After him are Richard Trautmann (1969), Franziska van Almsick (1978), Julian Schuster (1985), Stefan Krauße (1967), Uwe Kamps (1964), and Patrick Owomoyela (1979).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Werner Koch ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Ian Murdock (1973), and Rudolf Bayer (1939). After him are Tron (1972), Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), Denny Vrandečić (1978), and Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).

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