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Eli Biham

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Eli Biham · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1960, Israel

Where

Israel

Biography

Eli Biham is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer at the Technion who, with Adi Shamir, invented differential cryptanalysis, a fundamental technique for attacking block ciphers, and later co-developed impossible differential cryptanalysis and helped design the Serpent cipher. His work reshaped how modern encryption is analyzed and made secure. He is Israeli and Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS