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Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm, a co-inventor of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme, and one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1952 1
Birth Date
1952-07-06 1
Nationality
Israeli 1
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    Adi Shamir ... (born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
  • Infobox, Born
    July 6, 1952
  • Lead sentence, birth date phrase
    born July 6, 1952
  • Lead sentence, nationality clause
    is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor.
  • Invented: RSA Algorithm, introduction
    He is a co-inventor of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman)
  • In Field: Cryptography, introduction, first sentence
    born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor.
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