Adi Shamir
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Fields | Weizmann Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | The fixedpoints of recursive definitions[2] (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Zohar Manna[3] |
Doctoral students | Eli Biham Uriel Feige Amos Fiat[3] |
Website | www |
Adi Shamir (
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.[4]
Biography
Adi Shamir was born in
Weizmann Institute in 1975 and 1977 respectively.[3]
He spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick and did research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1977 to 1980.
Scientific career
In 1980, he returned to Israel, joining the faculty of
École Normale Supérieure
in Paris.
In addition to
Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, visual cryptography, and the TWIRL and TWINKLE factoring devices. Together with Eli Biham, he discovered differential cryptanalysis in the late 1980s, a general method for attacking block ciphers. It later emerged that differential cryptanalysis was already known — and kept a secret — by both IBM[5] and the National Security Agency (NSA).[6]
Shamir has also made contributions to computer science outside of cryptography, such as finding the first
linear time algorithm for 2-satisfiability[7] and showing the equivalence of the complexity classes PSPACE and IP
.
Awards and recognition
- 2002
- Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award;[9]
- Erdős Prize of the Israel Mathematical Society,
- 1986 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award[10]
- UAP Scientific Prize[clarification needed]
- Vatican's PIUS XI Gold Medal[11]
- 2000 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award[12]
- Israel Prize, in 2008, for computer sciences.[13][14]
- honorary DMath (Doctor of Mathematics) degree from the University of Waterloo[15]
- 2017 (33rd) Japan Prize in the field of Electronics, Information and Communication for his contribution to information security through pioneering research on cryptography [16]
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2018 for substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge.[1]
He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
References
- ^ a b Anon (2018). "Adi Shamir ForMemRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 2018-07-22. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- OCLC 884951223.
- ^ a b c Adi Shamir at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Adi Shamir at DBLP Bibliography Server
- (PDF) from the original on 2007-06-15. (subscription required)
- ISBN 0-14-024432-8.
- doi:10.1137/0205048.
- ^ "A. M. Turing Award". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2009-12-12. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
- ^ "ACM Award Citation / Adi Shamir". Archived from the original on 2009-04-06. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
- IEEE. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-04-25. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
- ^ "Pius XI Medal". www.pas.va. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- IEEE. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2010-11-24. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Recipient's C.V." Archived from the original on 2012-09-10.
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient". Archived from the original on 2012-09-10.
- ^ "Presentation of the honorary degree at the Fall 2009 Convcation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-24. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ "Laureates of the Japan Prize". Archived from the original on 2017-02-04.
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