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Informatique / SHAMIR, ADI

Adi.Shamir

Position

The Paul and Marlene Borman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Thèmes de recherche

His main area of research is cryptography — making and breaking codes. It is motivated by the explosive growth of computer networks and wireless communication. Without cryptographic protection, confidential information can be exposed to eavesdroppers, modified by hackers, or forged by criminals.

Adi Shamir, Drs. Ronald L. Rivest and Leonard M. Adleman have developed the RSA code, which has become the foundation for an entire generation of technology security products. It has also inspired important work in both theoretical computer science and mathematics. RSA is an algorithm - named for Drs. Rivest, Shamir and Adleman - that uses number theory to provide a pragmatic approach to secure transactions. It is today\'s most widely used encryption method, with applications in Internet browsers and servers, electronic transactions in the credit card industry, and products providing e-mail services.

In the last few years, Adi Shamir has developed (along with my students and colleagues) new practical cryptographic paradigms such as broadcast encryption, ring signatures and T-functions; new cryptanalytic attacks against block ciphers, stream ciphers, and number theoretic schemes; and new protective techniques against side channel attacks such as power analysis.

Prix et récompenses

In recognition of his contributions to cryptography, Shamir was awarded, together with Rivest and Adleman, the 2002 ACM Turing Award. Shamir has also received CM\'s Kannelakis Award, the Erd?s Prize of the Israel Mathematical Society, the IEEE\'s W.R.G. Baker Prize, the UAP Scientific Prize, The Vatican\'s PIUS XI.

Publications

[with R. Rivest and Y. Tauman] How to Leak a Secret. Proceedings of Asiacrypt \'01, December 2001.

[with A. Klimov and A. Mityagin] Analysis of Neural Cryptography. Proceedings of Asiacrypt \'02, December 2002.

[with E. Tromer] Factoring Large Numbers with the TWIRL Device. Proceedings of Crypto \'03, August 2003.