Adi Shamir
| Adi Shamir | |
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| Born |
July 6, 1952 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Residence | Israel |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute |
| Alma mater |
Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 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 |
Erdős Prize (1983) Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Israel Prize |
Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the 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.
Born in Tel Aviv, Shamir received a BSc 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.
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