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Ron Rivest
Co-inventing RSA, a foundational public-key cryptosystem.
RSA paper · MD5
- Born
- 6 May 1947
- Birthplace
- Schenectady, United States
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Ron Rivest
Ron Rivest is an American computer scientist whose research includes encryption, algorithms and election security. He shared the 2002 Turing Award with Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman.
Early life
Mathematics
Earned his undergraduate degree at Yale.
Doctorate
Completed computer-science research at Stanford in 1974.
Career
- 1974
MIT
Joined the faculty after his doctorate.
- 1977–1978
RSA
Developed and published the cryptosystem with Shamir and Adleman.
- 1980s–1990s
Cryptographic tools
Created encryption algorithms and hash functions.
- 2002
Turing Award
Shared computing’s major research honour.
Contributions
RSA paper
Described a practical public-key cryptosystem.
MD5
Designed a widely used hash function, later superseded for security uses.
RC5
Introduced a symmetric-key encryption algorithm.
Beyond research
Family
Married Gail Rivest and has two sons.
Election integrity
Has researched ways to audit and verify election results.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biography and career evidence ↗Photo: Ronald L. Rivest. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
