Ron Rivest
American cryptographer (born 1947)
Ronald Linn Rivest (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.2
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Born May 6, 1947.1
About
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. He also devised the MD2, MD4, MD5 and MD6 cryptographic hash functions.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedTimothy Dwight College3
- Date not recordedYale University3
- Date not recordedNiskayuna High School3
- Date not recordedStanford University3
Rivest earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1969, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1974 for research supervised by Robert W. Floyd.
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Career
Occupation: information professional, cryptologist, university teacher, computer scientist, scientist, mathematician.6
- Date not recordedWorked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
- Date not recordedFounded RSA5
Known for: MD5, RSA cryptosystem, Introduction to Algorithms.7
At MIT, Rivest is a member of the Theory of Computation Group, and founder of MIT CSAIL's Cryptography and Information Security Group.
Rivest was a founder of RSA Data Security (now merged with Security Dynamics to form RSA Security), Verisign, and of Peppercoin.
His former doctoral students include Avrim Blum, Benny Chor, Sally Goldman, Burt Kaliski, Anna Lysyanskaya, Margrit Betke, Ron Pinter, Robert Schapire, Alan Sherman,
and Mona Singh.
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Personal life
Rivest is married to Gail Rivest with whom he has two sons, Alex Rivest, filmmaker, and Chris Rivest, entrepreneur and company co-founder.
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Awards
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- 21Wikimedia CommonsRon Rivest photo by Ronald L. Rivest, CC BY-SA 4.0