Ron Rivest
Ronald Linn Rivest (;
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.
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