Shafrira Goldwasser, known as Shafi Goldwasser, is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, with Silvio Micali, won the 2012 ACM Turing Award. 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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Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof: "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff in their paper The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems."
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Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.
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Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.
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Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996) Gödel Prize (1993, 2001) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, BBVA Award (2018) RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics, RSA Mathematics Award (1998) L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards, Loreal Unesco Women in Science Award (2021) Turing Award (2012) Suffrage Science award (2016) ACM Fellow (2017) AAAS Fellow (2000)
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Zero-knowledge proof Probabilistic encryption Blum-Goldwasser cryptosystem Goldwasser-Micali cryptosystem
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pioneered the field of provable security, which laid the mathematical foundations that made modern cryptography possible.
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It is an idea put forward by Shafi Goldwasser and Joe Kilian in 1986
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It is an idea put forward by Shafi Goldwasser and Joe Kilian in 1986
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