Name: Adi Shamir

Born: July 6, 1952

  • Israeli cryptographer who co-inventor and developer of the RSA algorithm.
  • Co-inventor of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme.
  • One of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis.

Honors and awards

  • Turing Award.
  • Israel Prize, Erdős Prize.
  • Leonard Adleman
  • Ronald Rivest