- Adi Shamir
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name = Adi Shamir
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caption = At theCRYPTO 2003 conference
birth_date = 1952
birth_place =Tel Aviv ,Israel
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residence =Israel
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field =Cryptography
work_institution =Weizmann Institute
alma_mater = Ph.D.Weizmann Institute of Science , 1977
doctoral_advisor =Zohar Manna
doctoral_students = Mira Balaban
Eli Biham
Uriel Feige
Amos Fiat
Alexander Klimov
Dror Lapidot
Avital Schrift (Wierzba)
Ziv Soferman
Eran Tromer
known_for =RSA Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme differential cryptanalysis
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prizes =Turing Award
Israel Prize
Erdős Prize
religion = Jewish
footnotes =Adi Shamir ( _he. עדי שמיר; born 1952) is an
Israel i cryptographer. He was one of the inventors of theRSA algorithm (along withRon Rivest andLen Adleman ), one of the inventors of theFeige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme (along withUriel Feige andAmos Fiat ), one of the inventors ofdifferential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields ofcryptography andcomputer science .Education
Born in
Tel Aviv , Shamir received a BS inMathematics fromTel Aviv University in 1973 and obtained his MSc and PhD inComputer Science from theWeizmann Institute in 1975 and 1977 respectively. His thesis was titled, "Fixed Points of Recursive Programs and their Relation in Differential Agard Calculus". After a year postdoc atUniversity of Warwick , he did research at MIT from 1977–1980 before returning to be a member of the faculty ofMathematics andComputer Science at theWeizmann Institute . Starting from 2006, he is also an invited professor atÉcole Normale Supérieure in Paris.Research
In addition to
RSA , Shamir's other numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include the Shamir secret sharing scheme, the breaking of theMerkle-Hellman cryptosystem,visual cryptography , and theTWIRL andTWINKLE factoring devices. Together withEli Biham , he discovereddifferential cryptanalysis , a general method for attackingblock cipher s. (It later emerged that differential cryptanalysis was already known — and kept a secret — by bothIBM and theNSA .)Shamir has also made contributions to computer science outside of cryptography, such as showing the equivalence of the complexity classes
PSPACE and IP.Awards
In recognition of his contributions to cryptography, Shamir was awarded, together with Rivest and Adleman, the 2002 ACM
Turing Award [ [http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=0028491&srt=year&year=2002&aw=140&ao=AMTURING "ACM Award Citation / Adi Shamir" at acm.org] ] . Shamir has also received CM's Kannelakis Award, theErdős Prize of the Israel Mathematical Society, the IEEE's W.R.G.Baker Prize [ [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/bakepr.html "IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award Recipients" at ieee.org] ] , the UAP Scientific Prize, The Vatican's PIUS XI Gold Medal and the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. In 2008 he received theIsrael Prize ("פרס ישראל") for computer sciences.ee also
* Important publications in cryptography
External links
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Shamir:Adi.html List of Adi Shamir's publications on DBLP]
* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=%28IN%2FShamir+AND+AN%2FYeda%29&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=IN%2FShamir+AND+IN%2FAdi Adi Shamir's US Patents, 1976-present]References
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NAME= Shamir, Adi
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Cryptographer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH=Tel Aviv ,Israel
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