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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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Birth Year
1952 1
Birth Date
1952-07-06 1
Nationality
Israeli 1
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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
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Source Ring signature (Wikipedia)
Source Shamir's secret sharing (Wikipedia)

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1. Wikipedia: Adi Shamir
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  • 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.
  • 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
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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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