Levchin Prize

The first day of Real World Crypto always involves giving out the Levchin Prizes. This year they went to Adi Shamir (for foundational contributions to symmetric and public key cryptography, cryptographic protocols, and the cryptanalysis of real-world ciphers) and to Emmanuel Thomé, Pierrick Gaudry, Paul Zimmermann (for developing CADO-NFS, an implementation of the Number Field Sieve for factorization and discrete log, and for continued factorizations and discrete log records).