Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024).
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Adi Shamir
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, one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002, Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and Shamir won the ACM Turing Award.
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science · Israeli cryptographer (born 1952) · mathematician · cryptologist · computer scientist · also Adi Shamir, Shamir
Born 6 July 1952 · Q320624
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022).
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
CNET: Adi Shamir couldn’t get US visa to attend RSA Conference named for him
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018).
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Japan Prize (2017).
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Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017).
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2014· 1 entry
Together with Daniel Genkin and Eran Tromer, he demonstrated the extraction of full 4096-bit RSA keys from a laptop using the sound it emits during decryption
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science (2012).
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Awarded National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Shandong University (2010).
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2008· 3 entries
Ars Technica: Topic: Adi Shamir
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Awarded Okawa Prize (2008).
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Awarded Israel Prize (2008).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded IACR Fellow (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (2002).
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Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and Shamir won the ACM Turing Award
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2001· 1 entry
With Ron Rivest and Yael Tauman, he introduced the concept of ring signatures, which allow a member of a group to sign a message without revealing which member produced the signature
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for RSA cryptosystem (2000).
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A real-time cryptanalysis of A5/1, the stream cipher used to encrypt GSM mobile phone communications
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Paris Kanellakis Award (1996).
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award (1986).
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Together with Amos Fiat, he devised the Fiat–Shamir heuristic, a widely used method for converting interactive identification protocols into digital signature schemes
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1984· 1 entry
Shamir introduced the concept of identity-based cryptography, in which a user's public key can be derived from a unique identifier such as an email address
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics (1983).
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– Erdős Prize of the Israel Mathematical Society
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1980· 1 entry
Returned to Israel, joining the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute
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1979· 1 entry
Published “How to share a secret” in Communications of the ACM — cited 10,524 times.
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1978· 1 entry
Published “A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems” in Communications of the ACM — cited 11,799 times.
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1973· 1 entry
And obtained an MSc and PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute in 1975 and 1977 respectively
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-07-06.
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