Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-05-06 ) May 6, 1947 (age 79) , Schenectady, New York , U.S.
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), Stanford University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Public-key , RSA , RC2 , RC4 , RC5 , RC6 , MD2 , MD4 , MD5 , MD6 , Ring signature
- Awards
- Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Marconi Prize (2007) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2017) National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018)
- Fields
- Algorithms Cryptography Machine learning Election security
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- Analysis of associative retrieval algorithms (1974)
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert W. Floyd
- Doctoral students
- Margrit Betke Avrim Blum Benny Chor Sally Goldman Burt Kaliski Andrea LaPaugh Anna Lysyanskaya Ron Pinter Robert Schapire Alan Sherman Mona Singh Donna Slonim
- Website
- people .csail .mit .edu /rivest /
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Schenectady
- Occupation
- scientist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- MD5
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert W. Floyd
- Field of work
- cryptography
- Official website
- people.csail.mit.edu/rivest
- Image
- Ronald L Rivest photo.jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- Ron Rivest
- date of birth
- 1947-05-06
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- 2
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/; 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), 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, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ron Rivest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.