Person
Adi Shamir
A prominent cryptographer who proposed the Shamir Secret Sharing scheme in 1979 and is one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem. His contributions span foundational areas of modern cryptography and computer science.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Oct 31
Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS) is a cryptographic protocol proposed by Adi Shamir in 1979, achieving threshold secret sharing through polynomial interpolation.
Unverified50%