People Behind The Scenes
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Israeli Cryptographer and scientist, the ‘S’ behind the RSA, Adi Shamir, has made multifarious contributions to the fields of cryptography and science. The RSA algorithm, which was developed in 1977 and 1978 by him along with Ron Rivest and Leonard Adleman, was the first public key system that was used in practice. Read more...
Hailing from a firm background in the areas of DNA Computing, Computational Complexity and Quantum Computing, it's hard to believe that one man could be so multifaceted that he didn't even stop at Cryptography and Immunology.Read more...
Philip R. Zimmermann is one of those Cryptographers who really had to fight it out to make a place for his product in this field. He was under the sword for three years, when the US government tried to prosecute him for trying to make his program PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a computer encryption program, available globally. Read more...
An MIT professor, the ‘R’ behind RSA, Ronald Rivest is one of those cryptographers who has made a distinct mark in cryptography’s history. Born in 1947, he is currently a member of National Academy of Engineering, CSAIL (MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Association for Cryptographic Research among many others. Read more...
A computer programmer and mathematician, Taher Elgamal, an Egyptian born American, has left his footprints on the sands of time, with the invention of the Elgamal crypto algorithm. His 'signature scheme' proved to be a firm foundation for the development of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm). Read more...