THE ACM A. M. TURING AWARD
“The work of Goldwasser and Micali has expanded
the cryptography field beyond confidentiality
concerns,” said Limor Fix, Director of the
University Collaborative Research Group, Intel
Labs. “Their innovations also led to techniques
for message integrity checking and sender/
receiver identity authentication as well as digital
signatures used for software distribution, financial
transactions, and other cases where it is important
to detect forgery or tampering. They have
added immeasurably to our ability to conduct
communication and commerce over the Internet.”
For more information see www.intel.com/research.
ACM, Intel, and Google congratulate
SHAFI GOLDWASSER and SILVIO MICALI
for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in
the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification
of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.
“Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special
Initiatives at Google Inc., said Goldwasser and Micali
developed cryptographic algorithms that are designed around
computational hardness assumptions, making such algorithms hard to break in practice. “In the computer era, these
advances in cryptography have transcended the cryptography
of Alan Turing’s code-breaking era. They now have applications for ATM cards, computer passwords and electronic
commerce as well as preserving the secrecy of participant
data such as electronic voting. These are monumental
achievements that have changed how we live and work.”
For more information, see http://www.google.com/corporate/
index.html and http://research.google.com/.