Adi Shamir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Adi Shamir

cryptographer

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1952

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, cryptologist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Adi Shamir (Hebrew: ??? ?????; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer.
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.