Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir
עדי שמיר

Born	(1952-07-06) July 6, 1952 Tel Aviv, Israel
Education	Tel Aviv University (BSc) Weizmann Institute of Science (MSc, PhD)
Known for	RSA Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme differential cryptanalysis Shamir's secret sharing
Awards	Erdős Prize (1983) Weizmann Prize (1987) Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) Israel Prize (2008) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Cryptography
Institutions	Weizmann Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	The fixedpoints of recursive definitions (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Zohar Manna
Doctoral students	Eli Biham Uriel Feige Amos Fiat

Website	www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/profile/scientists/shamir-profile.html

Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (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.