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unusual facts about Shamir's Secret Sharing


George Blakley

In contrast, Shamir's secret sharing scheme represents the secret as the y-intercept of an n-degree polynomial, and shares correspond to points on the polynomial.


Clifford Cocks

He invented the widely used encryption algorithm now commonly known as RSA, about three years before it was independently developed by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman at MIT.

James H. Ellis

When, a few years later, Diffie and Hellman published their 1976 paper, and shortly after that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman announced their algorithm, Cocks, Ellis, and Williamson suggested that GCHQ announce that they had previously developed both.

Sadda Adda

Background score by Vladimir Persan, Songs was composed by Shamir Tandon, A Band of Boys and Ramji Gulati, with lyrics by Prashant Pandey, Sandeep Nath, Ramji Gulati, Shamir Tandon and Karan Oberoi.

Scrambler

It was the need to synchronize the scramblers that suggested to James H. Ellis the idea for non-secret encryption which ultimately led to the invention of both the RSA encryption algorithm and Diffie-Hellman key exchange well before either was reinvented publicly by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, or by Diffie and Hellman.

Spycatcher

After the re-discovery and commercial use of PKI by Rivest, Shamir, Diffie and others, the British government considered releasing the records of GCHQ's successes in this field.

Three-pass protocol

The Massey-Omura Cryptosystem was proposed by James Massey and Jim K. Omura in 1982 as a possible improvement over the Shamir protocol.

Twenty-fourth government of Israel

Tehiya, Tzomet and Moledet all left the coalition in late 1991 and early 1992 in protest at Shamir's participation in the Madrid Conference, but the government remained in office until Yitzhak Rabin formed the twenty-fifth government, following the Labor Party's victory in the 1992 elections.

Twenty-third government of Israel

In 1990, after Shamir refused to accept a peace initiative developed by United States Secretary of State James Baker, the Alignment filed a motion of no-confidence in the government.

VideoCrypt

The system also included a cryptographic element called the Fiat Shamir Zero Knowledge Test.

Yaakov Malkin

During the 1948 war in Israel, he served as a broadcasting officer for the Haganah and the IDF (1947–1948) in the underground radio station, Telem Shamir Boaz, that later became the Israel Army Radio (Galei Tzahal).


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