In recognition of this contribution to cryptography, Shamir was awarded, together with Rivest and Adleman, the 2002 ACM Turing Award. Shamir is a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Weizmann Institute.

His numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include the Shamir secret sharing scheme, breaking of the Merkle-Hellman cryptosystem, differential cryptanalysis, visual cryptography, and the TWIRL and TWINKLE factoring devices.

Though Shamir mostly known as a cryptographer, he has made significant contributions to computer science outside of cryptography, such as showing the equivalence of the complexity classeses PSPACE and IP.

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