Ron Rivest

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Ron Rivest
Rivest in 2012
Born (1947-05-06) May 6, 1947 (age 77)
Schenectady, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forPublic-key
RSA, RC2, RC4, RC5, RC6
MD2, MD4, MD5, MD6, Ring signature
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisAnalysis of associative retrieval algorithms (1974)
Doctoral advisorRobert W. Floyd
Doctoral students
Websitepeople.csail.mit.edu/rivest/

Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/;[3][4] born May 6, 1947) is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),[5] and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. (RC stands for "Rivest Cipher".) He also devised the MD2, MD4, MD5 and MD6 cryptographic hash functions.

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  2. ^ Singh, Mona (1996). Learning algorithms with applications to robot navigation and protein folding (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/40579. OCLC 680493381. Free access icon
  3. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RSA Conference (February 25, 2014). "The Cryptographers' Panel" – via YouTube.
  4. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Faculty Forum Online: Ron Rivest". YouTube.
  5. ^ Dizikes, Peter (June 29, 2015). "Chisholm, Rivest, and Thompson appointed as new Institute Professors: Biologist, computer scientist, and musician awarded MIT's highest faculty honor". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.