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Ron Rivest

Also Known As Ronald Linn Rivest · Ronald L. Rivest
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Ronald Linn Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, for which the three won the 2002 ACM Turing Award; he is also the inventor of the RC2, RC4 and RC5 symmetric key encryption algorithms and co-inventor of RC6, and devised the MD2, MD4, MD5 and MD6 cryptographic hash functions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1947 1
Birth Date
1947-05-06 2
Award
Paris Kanellakis Award 1
Award
National Inventors Hall of Fame 1
Award
Turing Award 1
Award
ACM Fellow 1
Award
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 1
Award
Marconi Prize 1
Award
IACR Fellow 1
Award
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 1
Connections

Credited

DES-X, Algorithms
Source DES-X (Wikipedia)
MD2 (hash function), Algorithms
Source MD2 (hash function) (Wikipedia)
MD5 Algorithm, Algorithms
Source MD5, Wikipedia
MD6, Algorithms
Source MD6 (Wikipedia)
RC2, Algorithms
Source RC2 (Wikipedia)
RC5 Algorithm, Algorithms
Source RC5 (Wikipedia)
RC6 Algorithm, Algorithms
Source RC6 (Wikipedia)
Ring signature, Algorithms
Source Ring signature (Wikipedia)

In Field

Algorithms and Complexity Theory, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Ron Rivest
Cryptography, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Ron Rivest

Invented

MD2 (hash function), Algorithms
Source MD2 (hash function) (Wikipedia)
MD5, Concepts

Ron Rivest designed the MD5 hash function in 1991 as a successor to his earlier MD4.

MD5 Algorithm, Algorithms
Source MD5, Wikipedia
MD6, Algorithms
Source MD6 (Wikipedia)
RC2, Algorithms
Source RC2 (Wikipedia)
RC5 Algorithm, Algorithms

Ron Rivest designed the RC5 block cipher and published it in 1994.

Source Wikipedia: Ron Rivest
RC6 Algorithm, Algorithms

Co-designed with Matt Robshaw, Ray Sidney and Yiqun Lisa Yin for the AES competition. Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC6: "It was designed by Ron Rivest, Matt Robshaw, Ray Sidney, and Yiqun Lisa Yin to meet the requirements of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition."

Ring signature, Algorithms
Source Ring signature (Wikipedia)

Invented By

DES-X, Algorithms
Source DES-X (Wikipedia)

Long-Form Articles

Beyond RSA: selection, learning and honest ballots in the work of Ron Rivest, Articles
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Member Of

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Also in Education Atlas: which this subject is a member of.

Source Wikipedia: Ron Rivesttier 2

Nationality

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikidata: Ron Rivest
Wikidata Q578036, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
2. Wikipedia: Ron Rivest
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    born May 6, 1947
  • In Group: Applied Cryptography, lead sentence: Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combin
  • In Field: Cryptography, Lead paragraph
  • In Field: Algorithms and Complexity Theory, Lead paragraph
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MD5, Wikipedia
  • Credited: MD5 Algorithm, Lead section
    MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991
  • Invented: MD5 Algorithm, Lead section
    MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991
  • Credited: MD5 Algorithm, Lead
    MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function MD4, and was specified in 1992 as RFC 1321.
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MD2 (hash function) (Wikipedia)
  • Invented: MD2 (hash function), Lead
    The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is an obsolete cryptographic hash function developed by Ronald Rivest in 1989.
  • Credited: MD2 (hash function), Lead
    The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is an obsolete cryptographic hash function developed by Ronald Rivest in 1989.
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RC2 (Wikipedia)
  • Invented: RC2, Lead
    RC2 (also known as ARC2) is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987.
  • Credited: RC2, Lead
    RC2 (also known as ARC2) is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987.
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DES-X (Wikipedia)
  • Invented By: DES-X, Introduction [invented]
    DES-X, proposed by Ron Rivest in May 1984
  • Credited: DES-X, Introduction
    DES-X, proposed by Ron Rivest in May 1984
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MD6 (Wikipedia)
  • Credited: MD6, Infobox, designers
  • Invented: MD6, Infobox, designers
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Ring signature (Wikipedia)
  • Credited: Ring signature, Lead section
    invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman Kalai
  • Invented: Ring signature, Lead section
    invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman Kalai
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RC5 (Wikipedia)
Credited: RC5 Algorithm, Lead
Quote, Credited: RC5 Algorithm, Lead
Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, According to Ron Rivest, RC stands for "Ron's Code" but its documentation gives only RC5 as its name.
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RC6 (Wikipedia)
Credited: RC6 Algorithm, Lead
Quote, Credited: RC6 Algorithm, Lead
It was designed by Ron Rivest, Matt Robshaw, Ray Sidney, and Yiqun Lisa Yin to meet the requirements of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition.
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