Adi Shamir
The S in RSA
RSA, secret sharing, and differential cryptanalysis
Rating
96Impact score
Domains
CryptanalysisPublic-key cryptographySecret sharing
Scouting report
Co-invented RSA, then invented Shamir secret sharing, then co-developed differential cryptanalysis with Eli Biham — the technique that turned out to be the one the DES designers had quietly hardened against seventeen years earlier. Also a co-author of the cube attack and a long line of side-channel work. Turing Award, 2002.
Curator’s note
Builds the lock and breaks the lock, usually in the same decade.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Adi Shamir by Erik Tews, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sources
- 01Adi Shamir en.wikipedia.org
- 02Differential cryptanalysis en.wikipedia.org