Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer.
He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman. Also, with Eli Biham, he was one of the (public) inventors of the powerful technique of differential cryptanalysis.
In recognition of this contribution to cryptography, Shamir was awarded, together with Rivest and Adleman, the 2002 ACM Turing Award. Shamir is a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Weizmann Institute.
His numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include the Shamir secret sharing scheme, breaking of the Merkle-Hellman cryptosystem, differential cryptanalysis, visual cryptography, and the TWIRL and TWINKLE factoring devices.
Though Shamir mostly known as a cryptographer, he has made significant contributions to computer science outside of cryptography, such as showing the equivalence of the complexity classes PSPACE and IP.
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