Adi Shamir
1952
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Israel
occupation: mathematician, cryptologist, computer scientist
award received: Israel Prize, Turing Award, Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics, Paris Kanellakis Award, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, Grande médaille de l’Académie des sciences, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, IACR Fellow, Japan Prize, honorary doctor of the Shandong University, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo, IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Rothschild prize, IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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