Ron Rivest

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 2002 ACM Turing Award.

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1947 - Schenectady - New York - Cryptographer - MIT - Public-key - Len Adleman - Adi Shamir - RSA - 2002 - ACM - Turing Award

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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.) Similarly, he also authored the MD2, MD4 and MD5 cryptographic hash functions.

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Symmetric key - RC2 - RC4 - RC5 - RC6 - RSA Security - MD2 - MD4 - MD5 - Cryptographic hash function

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He earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Yale University in 1969, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974. He is a co-author of Introduction to Algorithms (also known as 'CLRS'), a standard textbook on algorithms, with Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson and Clifford Stein. He is a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Theory of Computation Group, and a founder of its Cryptography and Information Security Group. He was also a founder of RSA Data Security (now merged with Security Dynamics to form RSA Security) and of Peppercoin.

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Bachelor's degree - Yale University - 1969 - Ph.D. - Computer Science - Stanford University - 1974 - Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen - Charles E. Leiserson - Clifford Stein - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - RSA Data Security - RSA Security

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