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Ronald Linn Rivest (/ r ɪ ˈ v ɛ s t /; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity.
Ron Rivest is an Institute Professor at MIT and a co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem. He works on cryptography, computer and network security, algorithms, voting security, climate change, and contact tracing.
RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977.
Ronald L. Rivest: Biographical Information. Professor Rivest is an MIT Institute Professor. His home department is the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Aug 17, 2022 · Professor Rivest is a renowned cryptographer and a co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem. He is a Fellow of several academic societies and a recipient of the ACM Turing Award.
May 1, 2024 · Ronald L. Rivest is an American computer scientist and cowinner, with American computer scientist Leonard M. Adleman and Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir, of the 2002 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography.
