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Adi Shamir

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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/

Facts
Birth Year
1952 1
Birth Date
1952-07-06 1
Nationality
Israeli 1
Award
Okawa Prize 2
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Paris Kanellakis Award 2
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honorary doctorate from ENS 2
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National Inventors Hall of Fame 2
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2
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National Cyber Security Hall of Fame 2
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IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award 2
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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Rothschild Prize 2
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Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science 2
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IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 2
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2
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IACR Fellow 2
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2
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Israel Prize 2
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honorary doctor of the Shandong University 2
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honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo 2
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Japan Prize 2
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Wolf Prize in Mathematics 2
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Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics 1
Contribution Kind
Algorithm 3
Highest Honour
Turing Award 1
Connections

Credited

Ring signature, Algorithms
Source Ring signature (Wikipedia)
Shamir's Secret Sharing Algorithm, Algorithms
Source Shamir's secret sharing (Wikipedia)

In Field

Cryptography, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Adi Shamir

Invented

Ring signature, Algorithms
Source Ring signature (Wikipedia)
RSA Algorithm, Concepts
Source Wikipedia: Adi Shamir
Shamir's Secret Sharing Algorithm, Algorithms
Source Shamir's secret sharing (Wikipedia)

Long-Form Articles

Adi Shamir as both builder and breaker of ciphers, Articles
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Is Discussed By

Turing Award

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Source Wikipedia: Adi Shamirtier 2
Wolf Prize

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Source Wikipedia: Adi Shamirtier 2

Member Of

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Source Wikipedia: Adi Shamirtier 2

Nationality

Israel

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Adi Shamir
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; 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.
  • Infobox: awards
    Erdős Prize (1983) Weizmann Prize (1987) Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) Israel Prize (2008) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024)
  • 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.
  • In Group: Applied Cryptography, lead sentence: Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor.
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2. Wikidata: Adi Shamir
Wikidata Q320624, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
3. Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW, IEEE): Adi Shamir, Engineering and Technology History Wiki
Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW, IEEE)Biography
Quote, Biography
Professor Shamir is well known for his contributions to cryptography.
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Ring signature (Wikipedia)
  • Credited: Ring signature, Lead section
    invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman Kalai
  • Invented: Ring signature, Lead section
    invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman Kalai
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Shamir's secret sharing (Wikipedia)
  • Credited: Shamir's Secret Sharing Algorithm, Lead
    Shamir's secret sharing (SSS) is an efficient secret sharing algorithm for distributing private information (the "secret") among a group, first developed by Adi Shamir in 1979.
  • Invented: Shamir's Secret Sharing Algorithm, Lead
    Shamir's secret sharing (SSS) is an efficient secret sharing algorithm for distributing private information (the "secret") among a group, first developed by Adi Shamir in 1979.
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