16 Facts About Ron Rivest

Ronald Linn Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity.

Ron Rivest is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Ron Rivest is the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6.

Ron Rivest earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1969, and a Ph.

At MIT, Ron Rivest is a member of the Theory of Computation Group, and founder of MIT CSAIL's Cryptography and Information Security Group.

Ron Rivest was a founder of RSA Data Security, Verisign, and of Peppercoin.

Ron Rivest has made significant contributions to algorithm design, to the computational complexity of machine learning, and to election security.

Ron Rivest was one of the inventors of the GMR public signature scheme, published with Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali in 1988, and of ring signatures, an anonymized form of group signatures invented with Shamir and Yael Tauman Kalai in 2001.

Ron Rivest designed the MD4 and MD5 cryptographic hash functions, published in 1990 and 1992 respectively, and a sequence of symmetric key block ciphers that include RC2, RC4, RC5, and RC6.

Ron Rivest is a co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, a standard textbook on algorithms, with Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson and Clifford Stein.

Ron Rivest was a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee.

Ron 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 Cryptologic Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ron Rivest has received an honorary degree from the Sapienza University of Rome.

Ron Rivest was named in 2007 the Marconi Fellow, and on May 29,2008, he gave the Chesley lecture at Carleton College.

Ron Rivest was named an Institute Professor at MIT in June 2015.

Ron Rivest's son is Chris Rivest, entrepreneur and company co-founder.