Ron Rivest
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| Born | May 6, 1947 Schenectady, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Public-key RSA, RC2, RC4, RC5, RC6 MD2, MD4, MD5, MD6, Ring signature |
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Analysis of associative retrieval algorithms (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert W. Floyd |
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| Website | people |
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. 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.