Adi Shamir
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| Born | July 6, 1952 Tel Aviv, Israel |
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| Residence | Israel |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Institutions | 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 |
| Notable awards | Turing Award Israel Prize Erdős Prize |
| Religious stance | Jewish |
Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), one of the inventors 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.
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[edit] Education
Born in Tel Aviv, Shamir received a BS degree in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1973 and obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Weizmann 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 at University of Warwick, he did research at MIT from 1977–1980 before returning to be a member of the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute. Starting from 2006, he is also an invited professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
[edit] Research
In addition to RSA, Shamir's other numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include the Shamir secret sharing scheme, the breaking of the Merkle-Hellman cryptosystem, visual cryptography, and the TWIRL and TWINKLE factoring devices. Together with Eli Biham, he discovered differential cryptanalysis, a general method for attacking block ciphers. (It later emerged that differential cryptanalysis was already known — and kept a secret — by both IBM and the NSA.)
Shamir has also made contributions to computer science outside of cryptography, such as showing the equivalence of the complexity classes PSPACE and IP.
[edit] Awards
In recognition of his contributions to cryptography, Shamir was awarded, together with Rivest and Adleman, the 2002 ACM Turing Award.[1] Shamir has also received Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award,[2] the Erdős Prize of the Israel Mathematical Society, the IEEE's W.R.G. Baker Prize,[3] the UAP Scientific Prize, The Vatican's PIUS XI Gold Medal and the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. In 2008 he received the Israel Prize ("פרס ישראל") for computer sciences.
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