Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He helped create the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman. He also helped create the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat.
Ronald Linn Rivest (born May 6, 1947) is an American expert in secret codes and computer science. His work includes areas like algorithms, cryptography, machine learning, and ensuring fair elections. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and part of MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Ralph C. Merkle was born on February 2, 1952. He is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is an American code expert and mathematician, best known for helping create public-key cryptography with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman has long worked on issues related to computer privacy and has used risk analysis to study the possibility of nuclear deterrence failing. Hellman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for his work in developing and using cryptographic methods.
Whitfield Whit Diffie, born on June 5, 1944, is an American cryptographer and mathematician. He is one of the key people who helped create public-key cryptography, along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. In 1976, Diffie and Hellman wrote a paper titled New Directions in Cryptography.
Oded Goldreich (Hebrew: עודד גולדרייך; born 1957) is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. His research focuses on the theory of computation, including how randomness and computation work together, the basic ideas behind cryptography, and how difficult problems are to solve with computers. He received the Knuth Prize in 2017 and was chosen in 2021 to receive the Israel Prize in mathematics.
Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1959) is a computer scientist from Israel and the United States. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also teaches at the Weizmann Institute of Science and was the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
Silvio Micali was born on October 13, 1954. He is an Italian computer scientist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.
Michael Fredric Sipser was born on September 17, 1954. He is an American computer scientist who studied how computers solve problems and how long it takes them to do so. He is a professor of applied mathematics and previously served as the dean of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Richard Manning Karp was born on January 3, 1935. He is an American computer scientist and computational theorist who works at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in the theory of algorithms.