Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics...

secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm...

in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 paper "A Method for Obtaining...

encryption algorithms invented by Ron Rivest. The "RC" may stand for either Rivest's cipher or, more informally, Ron's code. Despite the similarity in their...

encryption standards. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography...

the chaff is discarded. The cryptographic technique was conceived by Ron Rivest and published in an on-line article on 18 March 1998. Although it bears...

cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir...

Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI, pronounced sudsy) by Ron Rivest and Butler Lampson. The original SPKI had identified principals only as...

block cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987. "RC" stands for "Ron's Code" or "Rivest Cipher"; other ciphers designed by Rivest include RC4, RC5, and RC6...

Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest. He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University...

being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list. He is the son of Ron Rivest, the cryptographer and founder of RSA. "Semiconductors and Semiconductor...

Ron Rivest of RSA Security in 1987. While it is officially termed "Rivest Cipher 4", the RC acronym is alternatively understood to stand for "Ron's Code"...

algorithm's reference implementation. This error was later made public by Ron Rivest on 19 February 2009, with a release of a corrected reference implementation...

key length RC6 – variable block length; AES finalist, by Ron Rivest et al. RC5 – Ron Rivest SAFER – variable block length SC2000 – 128-bit block; CRYPTREC...

Ph.D. in 1982, both in EECS. His advisors were Charles Leiserson and Ron Rivest. Before turning his focus to bioinformatics, Pinter most notably co-defined...

Daemen, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics from the hands of Ron Rivest. In 2023, he received the Levchin Prize for his work on AES. "Announcing...

James Read, an actor who starred in North & South with Patrick Swayze. Ron Rivest, a cryptographer and MIT Computer Science professor, most famous for helping...

In cryptography, RC6 (Rivest cipher 6) is a symmetric key block cipher derived from RC5. It was designed by Ron Rivest, Matt Robshaw, Ray Sidney, and Yiqun...

algorithm named after its inventors Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali and Ron Rivest. As with RSA the security of the system is related to the difficulty of...

signing set without additional setup. Ring signatures were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman Kalai, and introduced at ASIACRYPT in 2001...

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politician Jesse Rivest (born 1977), Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Rivest-Bunster (born 1986), Canadian recurve archer Ron Rivest (born 1947), American...

INCITS 226-1994 (R2004)), Scheme (R5RS and R6RS), and ISLISP. In May 1997, Ron Rivest submitted an Internet Draft to be considered for publication as an RFC...

for its simplicity. Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, RC stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code" (compare RC2 and RC4). The Advanced...

1977, a generalization of Cocks's scheme was independently invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, all then at MIT. The latter authors published...

Newegg's use of https:// protocol mixing SSL and RC4. Whitfield Diffie and Ron Rivest, the inventors of public-key cryptography and RC4 encryption respectively...

ISBN 978-0-521-83084-3 Pass, Rafael, A Course in Cryptography (PDF), retrieved 31 December 2015 RSA Laboratories entry on MACs Ron Rivest lecture on MACs 11-12-20C8...

peppercoin method. The peppercoin system was developed by Silvio Micali and Ron Rivest and first presented at the RSA Conference in 2002 (although it had not...

Erdős number of 1, having collaborated with Erdős himself. Cryptographers Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, inventors of the RSA cryptosystem, all...

129-digit (426 bit) number, RSA-129, in order to recover the plaintext. Ron Rivest estimated in 1977 that factoring a 125-digit semiprime would require 40...