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Ronald L. Rivest

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academic computer scientist cryptographer human

Ronald L. Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem and a pioneer in modern cryptography.

Aliases (2)

Ron Rivest ×7
Rivest ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → computer scientist → cryptographer → human →
awardReceived	ACM Turing Award → BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies → MIT James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award → MITX Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs → Marconi Prize → Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award → Turing Award →
coAuthor	Adi Shamir → Leonard Adleman →
coInventorOf	RC4 stream cipher → RC5 block cipher → RC6 block cipher → RSA cryptosystem → ThreeBallot voting system →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
doctoralAdvisor	Manuel Blum →
educatedAt	Stanford University → Yale University →
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
familyName	Rivest →
fieldOfWork	computer science → cryptography → information security →
givenName	Ronald →
knownFor	RSA public-key cryptosystem → modern cryptography →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science → National Academy of Engineering → National Academy of Sciences →
notableWork	Chaffing and winnowing → MD5 → RC2 → RC4 → RC5 → RC6 → RSA cryptosystem → Scantegrity → ThreeBallot voting system →
positionHeld	professor →
researchInterest	electronic voting → hash functions → public-key cryptography →
sexOrGender	male →
workplace	MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Adi Shamir ("Ron Rivest") → Silvio Micali ("Ron Rivest") →	coAuthor
Leonard Adleman ("Ron Rivest") →	coInventedWith
Adi Shamir ("Ron Rivest") →	coInventorWith
RC4 ("Ron Rivest") →	designedBy
Ronald L. Rivest ("Rivest") →	familyName
Introduction to Algorithms →	hasAuthor
Institute Professor at MIT →	hasNotableHolder
RSA ("Ron Rivest") →	inventedBy
RSA ("Ron Rivest") →	namedAfter