Editing Ron Rivest (section)

{{Short description|American cryptographer}}
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| name              = 
| image             = Ronald L Rivest photo.jpg
| caption           = Rivest in 2012
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1947|5|6|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Schenectady, New York]], U.S.
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| nationality       = American
| field             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Algorithm]]s
* [[Cryptography]]
* [[Machine learning]]
* [[Election security]]
}}
| work_institution  = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| education         = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Stanford University]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| thesis_title      = Analysis of associative retrieval algorithms
| thesis_url        = http://worldcat.org/oclc/897011820
| thesis_year       = 1974
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Robert W. Floyd]]
| doctoral_students = {{Plainlist|
* [[Avrim Blum]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Benny Chor]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Sally Goldman]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Burt Kaliski]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Andrea LaPaugh]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Anna Lysyanskaya]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Ron Pinter]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Robert Schapire]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Alan Sherman]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Mona Singh (scientist)|Mona Singh]]<ref name=monaphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Mona|last=Singh |title=Learning algorithms with applications to robot navigation and protein folding |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |date=1996 |oclc=680493381  |hdl=1721.1/40579}} {{free access}}</ref>
}}
| known_for         = [[Public-key]]<br /> [[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]], [[RC2]], [[RC4 (cipher)|RC4]], [[RC5]], [[RC6]]<br />[[MD2 (cryptography)|MD2]], [[MD4]], [[MD5]], [[MD6]], [[Ring signature]]
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| prizes            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Paris Kanellakis Award]] (1996)
* [[Turing Award]] (2002)
* [[Marconi Prize]] (2007)
* [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards]] (2017)
* [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] (2018)}}
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| website           = {{URL|https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/}}
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'''Ronald Linn Rivest''' ({{IPAc-en|r|ɪ|ˈ|v|ɛ|s|t}};<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/gMc9fHvc78Y Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140707034735/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMc9fHvc78Y Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMc9fHvc78Y&t=1m7s|title=The Cryptographers' Panel|last=RSA Conference|date=25 February 2014|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/WDGh3-1itPw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311174316/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGh3-1itPw&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGh3-1itPw&t=1m| title = Faculty Forum Online: Ron Rivest | website=[[YouTube]]| date = October 15, 2015 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
born May 6, 1947) is an American [[cryptography|cryptographer]] and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity.
He is an [[List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Institute Professor]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.mit.edu/2015/chisholm-rivest-thompson-institute-professors-0629|newspaper=MIT News|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|title=Chisholm, Rivest, and Thompson appointed as new Institute Professors: Biologist, computer scientist, and musician awarded MIT's highest faculty honor|first=Peter|last=Dizikes|date=June 29, 2015}}</ref>
and a member of MIT's [[MIT School of Engineering#Electrical Engineering and Computer Science|Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science]] and its [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]].

Along with [[Adi Shamir]] and [[Len Adleman]], Rivest is one of the inventors of the [[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]] algorithm.
He is also the inventor of the [[symmetric key]] encryption algorithms [[RC2]], [[RC4 (cipher)|RC4]], and [[RC5]], and co-inventor of [[RC6]]. (''RC'' stands for "Rivest Cipher".) He also devised the [[MD2 (cryptography)|MD2]], [[MD4]], [[MD5]] and [[MD6]] [[cryptographic hash function]]s.