Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. 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.[4]
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Born | Tel Aviv, Israel | July 6, 1952
Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute of Science |
Known for | RSA Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme differential cryptanalysis |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Cryptography |
Institutions | Weizmann Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | The fixedpoints of recursive definitions[2] (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Zohar Manna[3] |
Doctoral students | Eli Biham Uriel Feige Amos Fiat[3] |
Website | www |