Adi SHAMIR  
Applied Mathematics Department
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100
Israel
Email : shamir@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il

Session Chair Abstract Biography

The Security of Block Ciphers  

Session Chair : Manuel BLUM, UC Berkeley, USA

Abstract

In this talk I'll describe the state of the art in cryptanalysing modern block ciphers, ranging from IDEA and Skipjack to the various Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) submissions.

Biography

Adi Shamir is a member of the Applied Mathematics Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He participated in developing the RSA public key cryptosystem, the Fiat-Shamir identification scheme, polynomial secret sharing scheme, visual cryptosystem, lattice attacks on knapsack cryptosystems, differential cryptanalysis, fault attacks on smart cards, algebraic attacks on multivariate cryptosystems, and numerous other cryptographic schemes and techniques.

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