Professor Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is most celebrated for his work on public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002ACMTuring Award.
He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. The "RC" stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code". (RC3 was broken at RSA Security during development; similarly, RC1 was never published.) He also authored the MD4 and MD5cryptographic hash functions.
Professor Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He is most celebrated for his work on public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSAalgorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award.
Professor Rivest is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the International Association for Cryptographic Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
RonaldRivest is best known for his work in cryptography (the RSA public key encryption system) and his co-founding of the RSA Data Security Group.
Ronald Linn Rivest was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1947.
Rivest has been granted a number of awards (including several for best paper) and he is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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