Cryptographer
Adi Shamir
The S in RSA, and an Israeli cryptanalyst who broke many other people's ciphers.
Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm, a co-inventor of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme, one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002, Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and Shamir won the ACM Turing Award.
- Born
- 1952-07-06, Tel Aviv, IsraelA Sunday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- Israel
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1952-07-06, Tel Aviv, Israel · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Jerusalemthe zone used then
Asia/JerusalemThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 14°12′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 28°07′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Leo | 8°49′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 17°22′ | Direct |
| Mars | Scorpio | 5°19′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 14°42′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 8°44′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 14°12′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 18°56′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 20°02′ | Direct |
Adi Shamir is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Adi Shamir was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.