Ron Rivest

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	To oppose or discuss a nomination, please go to CZ:Proposed for deletion and follow the instructions. For the monthly nomination lists, see Category:Articles for deletion. Ron Rivest is a [[cryptography | cryptographer who teaches at [[MIT. He is probably best known as the "R" in [[RSA algorithm|RSA, co-inventor of of the most widely used [[public key encryption technique. Rivest is also one of the founders of [[RSA Laboratories, a company created to commercialise the RSA system which has since grown into one of the major players in the [[information security industry. Among the things Rivest has designed (sometimes with collaborators), and the company has marketed, have been: [[DES-X, an enhanced version of the [[Data Encryption Standard a series of Message Digest ([[cryptographic hash) algorithms. Rivest's [[MD4 and [[MD5 have been widely used, as have other hashes whose design is heavily influenced by MD4, the [[NSA's [[SHA hashes and the European [[RIPE-MD. [[MD6 is an entrant in the [[Advanced Hash Standard contest. a series of [[Rivest ciphers|ciphers called RCn with "RC" for "Rivest Cipher" or perhaps "Ron's Code". [[RC4 is a very widely used [[stream cipher. [[RC6 was a finalist in the [[AES contest. Rivest received his PhD from [[Stanford University in 1974. His supervisor was [[Robert W Floyd and thesis topic "Analysis of Associative Retrieval Algorithms".