# Adi Shamir — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Adi Shamir has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How RSA Public-Key Encryption Keeps Digital Messages Secret](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/4405829/rsa-encryption) — granted 1983
  This patent describes the foundational RSA algorithm, a method for securely sending messages where anyone can encrypt a message using a public key, but only the intended recipient can decrypt it using a secret private key.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/adi-shamir

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