Computer Science Prize to Honor 3 Forerunners of Internet Security

[R. A. Hettinga]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/technology/14PRIZ.html?tntemail0=&pagewanted=print&position=top>

The
New York Times


April 14, 2003 

Computer Science Prize to Honor 3
Forerunners of Internet Security 
By JOHN MARKOFF 


The Association of
Computing Machinery plans to announce today that Ronald L. Rivest, Adi
Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman will receive the 2002 A. M. Turing Award for
their development work in public-key cryptography. 

The award, which
carries a $100,000 prize financed by the Intel Corporation , is given
annually to leading researchers in the field of computer science. 

Working
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, the three men
developed the RSA algorithm, which is widely used today as a basic
mechanism for secure Internet transactions, as well as in the banking and
credit card industries. 

The strength of this approach is that it provides
highly secure communications over distances between parties that have never
previously been in contact. 

Dr. Rivest now teaches in the electrical
engineering and computer science department at M.I.T. 

Dr. Shamir is a
professor in the applied mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Israel. 

Dr. Adleman is a professor of computer science and
of molecular biology at the University of Southern California. 
  


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