(JTA) Adi Shamir, 64, a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, was among three winners of the 2017 Japan Prize, selected from among 13,000 nominations, for his work in the field of cryptography, the Japan Prize Foundation announced Thursday. "My main area of research is cryptography - making and breaking codes," Shamor explained. "Without cryptographic protection, confidential information can be exposed to eavesdroppers, modified by hackers, or forged by criminals." Ephraim Katzir, a biophysicist and former Israeli president, won the prize in 1985, the inaugural year of the award.
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