2017 Japan Prize winner

One of my cyber heroes, Professor Adi Shamir of Israel’s Weizmann Institute has won a 2017 Japan Prize for his pioneering work on cryptography. In 1977 Shamir, together with Ron Rivest and Leonard Adleman invented the RSA public-key algorithm standard for data encryption, valid even today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientist-wins-japan-prize-for-cryptography-work/

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A7BCdnscmeY?rel=0

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