Kerckhoff or Kerckhoffs is a

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toponymic surname A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,

meaning "church yard" (modern Dutch ''kerkhof''). An ancestor may have lived near or worked in the church yard, or have come from a number of villages and hamlets named ''Kerkhove'' or ''Kerkhoven''.Kerkhoff
at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands Variant forms of the surname are Kerkhof, ''Kerkhoff(s)'', Kerkhove(n), and ''Van (de) Kerkhof(f)''. Notable people with the surname include: *

Auguste Kerckhoffs Auguste Kerckhoffs (19 January 1835 – 9 August 1903) was a Dutch linguist and cryptographer in the late 19th century. Biography Kerckhoffs was born in Nuth, the Netherlands, as Jean Guillaume Auguste Victor François Hubert Kerckhoffs, ...

(1835–1903), Dutch linguist and cryptographer **

Kerckhoffs' principle Kerckhoffs's principle (also called Kerckhoffs's desideratum, assumption, axiom, doctrine or law) of cryptography was stated by the Dutch cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th century. The principle holds that a cryptosystem should be sec ...

, a cryptographic principle named for him * Hermann Kerckhoff (1937–2023), Canadian slalom canoeist *

Joseph Kerckhoffs Joseph Romain Louis Kerckhoffs (Nuth, 3 September 1789 – Mechelen, 10 October 1867) was a Dutch physician. He was a physician in Napoleon's army and after 1815 chief physician of the Dutch military hospitals. Numerous publications have been publi ...

(1789–1867), Dutch physician * Steven Kerckhoff (born 1952), American mathematician * Sylvia Kerckhoff (born 1928), American politician from North Carolina *

William G. Kerckhoff William George Kerckhoff (1856–1929) was an American businessman. Early life Kerckhoff was born on March 30, 1856, in Terre Haute, Indiana.Short History of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research', W. G. Kerckhoff Institute] Care ...

(1856–1929), American businessman **

Kerckhoff Dam Kerckhoff Dam is a concrete arch dam on the San Joaquin River in Fresno County, California, about southwest of Big Creek. The tall dam is a run-of-the-river facility impounding of water and is the primary feature of Pacific Gas and Electric's ...

, a reservoir dam in California named after him ** Kerckhoff Marine Lab, southern California marine station owned and operated by Caltech named after him

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