Happy Birthday to Adi Shamir! Shamir received the 2002 #ACMTuringAward with Leonard M. Adleman and Ronald Rivest, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice. In 1977, Shamir, Rivest, and Adleman showed how a message could easily be encoded, sent to a recipient, and decoded with little chance of it being decoded by a third party who sees it. The method, known as Public Key Cryptography, uses two different but mathematically linked keys: one public key used to encrypt the message, and a completely different private key used to decrypt it. The encrypting key is made public by individuals who wish to receive messages, but the secret decrypting key is known only to them. Their cryptography method is used in almost all internet-based commercial transactions today. Read more about Shamir’s contributions to #cryptography, here: https://bit.ly/4cwDrLQ
Stefan T.
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Totally agree "Don't overdo it", the better is an enemy of the good.
Manas Sahoo
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Indeed, humans are the weak point.
Andrew Toth
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Is this the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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1wIt is impossible to exaggerate the vitality and applicability of RSA. I congratulate Ron and Leonard and of course Adi, who received lately also Wolf Prize Laureate in Mathematics 2024, shared with Noga Alon, “for their pioneering contributions to mathematical #cryptography, combinatorics, and the theory of computer science”.🔔 👇 Just to say: if any of them succeeds in developing mathematically provable encryption, equivocation based, they would not say "don't overdo"...