Adi Shamir is a well known
cryptographer. He was one of the inventors of the
RSA algorithm. The 'S' in RSA stands for Shamir.In recognition of this contribution to
cryptography,
Adi Shamir was the recipient, along with Professors
Rivest and
Adleman of the 2002 ACM
Turing Award, that is sometimes called the
Nobel Prize of
computer science.