Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer and co-inventor of the RSA algorithm.
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He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm and won the ACM Turing Award in 2002 with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman.[1]
Life and work
He co-invented the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme and the Shamir secret sharing scheme, and broke the Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem.[1][2] In 2001, with Ron Rivest and Yael Tauman, he introduced ring signatures, and with Scott Fluhrer and Itsik Mantin he published the Fluhrer–Mantin–Shamir attack on the RC4 stream cipher.[3] Shamir completed a BSc in mathematics at Tel Aviv University in 1973, then earned an MSc in 1975 and a PhD in 1977, both in computer science from the Weizmann Institute.[4] In 1980 he came back to Israel and became a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute; since 2006 he has also served as an invited professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.[5]
What the cited sources add
In a prerecorded video to the conference, Shamir suggested the research community reconsider where it holds scientific conferences.[6] Panelist Shafi Goldwasser called the visa situation "magnificent in its unreasonableness"[6] Other panelists including Ronald Rivest, Whitfield Diffie, Tal Rabin, and Paul Kocher expressed exasperation that Shamir and others were denied access to the United States.[6] A 2019 Threatpost article reports that Shamir could not attend the RSA Conference in San Francisco because his US visa application was not granted, and he stated he had applied nearly two months earlier.[6]
References
- Wikipedia, "Adi Shamir" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; "A.M. Turing Award Winners by Year", Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Adi Shamir" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Coppersmith, "The Data Encryption Standard (DES) and its strength against attacks", IBM Journal of Research and Development, May 1994, p. 243–250; Levy, "Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age", Penguin Books, 2001, p. 55–56 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Adi Shamir" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rivest, "Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2001", Springer, 2001, p. 552–565; "Adi Shamir", American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fluhrer, "Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2001", Springer, 2001, p. 1–24 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Adi Shamir" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Adi Shamir" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Adi Shamir - A.M. Turing Award Laureate", amturing.acm.org; "Adi Shamir - A.M. Turing Award Laureate", amturing.acm.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Spring, "RSA Conference 2019: Cryptographers' Panel Decries Adi Shamir's Visa Issues", Threatpost, March 6, 2019. facts only, no text reused. threatpost.com
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