BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2017)
National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018)
Scientific career
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
Avrim Blum[1]
Benny Chor[1]
Sally Goldman[1]
Burt Kaliski[1]
Andrea LaPaugh[1]
Anna Lysyanskaya[1]
Ron Pinter[1]
Robert Schapire[1]
Alan Sherman[1]
Mona Singh[2]
Website
people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/
Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/;[3][4]
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.
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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^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.
^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RSA Conference (February 25, 2014). "The Cryptographers' Panel" – via YouTube.
^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Faculty Forum Online: Ron Rivest". YouTube.
^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.
Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics...
encryption algorithms invented by RonRivest. The "RC" may stand for either Rivest's cipher or, more informally, Ron's code. Despite the similarity in their...
in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by RonRivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 paper "A Method for Obtaining...
encryption standards. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, RonRivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography...
block cipher designed by RonRivest in 1987. "RC" stands for "Ron's Code" or "Rivest Cipher"; other ciphers designed by Rivest include RC4, RC5, and RC6...
cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with RonRivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir...
being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list. He is the son of RonRivest, the cryptographer and founder of RSA. "Semiconductors and Semiconductor...
the chaff is discarded. The cryptographic technique was conceived by RonRivest and published in an on-line article on 18 March 1998. Although it bears...
Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor RonRivest. He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University...
RonRivest of RSA Security in 1987. While it is officially termed "Rivest Cipher 4", the RC acronym is alternatively understood to stand for "Ron's Code"...
algorithm's reference implementation. This error was later made public by RonRivest on 19 February 2009, with a release of a corrected reference implementation...
James Read, an actor who starred in North & South with Patrick Swayze. RonRivest, a cryptographer and MIT Computer Science professor, most famous for helping...
In cryptography, RC6 (Rivest cipher 6) is a symmetric key block cipher derived from RC5. It was designed by RonRivest, Matt Robshaw, Ray Sidney, and Yiqun...
signing set without additional setup. Ring signatures were invented by RonRivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman Kalai, and introduced at ASIACRYPT in 2001...
for its simplicity. Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, RC stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code" (compare RC2 and RC4). The Advanced...
Newegg's use of https:// protocol mixing SSL and RC4. Whitfield Diffie and RonRivest, the inventors of public-key cryptography and RC4 encryption respectively...
129-digit (426 bit) number, RSA-129, in order to recover the plaintext. RonRivest estimated in 1977 that factoring a 125-digit semiprime would require 40...
Mandelbrot Robert Nozick Penn & Teller Roger Penrose James Randi Marjorie Rice RonRivest Tom Rodgers Rudy Rucker Lee Sallows Doris Schattschneider Jeffrey Shallit...
and his team. RSA public key encryption, introduced by Adi Shamir with RonRivest, and Leonard Adleman The concept of nondeterministic finite automatons...
Daemen, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics from the hands of RonRivest. In 2022, he received the Levchin Prize for his work on AES. "Announcing...
peppercoin method. The peppercoin system was developed by Silvio Micali and RonRivest and first presented at the RSA Conference in 2002 (although it had not...
24) occupy the upper floors. Academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky, RonRivest, and World Wide Web Consortium founder Tim Berners-Lee also have offices...
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