He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
The ThreeBallot voting protocol, invented by Ron Rivest, was designed to provide some of the benefits of a cryptographic voting system without using cryptography.
When, a few years later, Diffie and Hellman published their 1976 paper, and shortly after that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman announced their algorithm, Cocks, Ellis, and Williamson suggested that GCHQ announce that they had previously developed both.
This enthusiasm led him to MIT where he majored in computer science and conducted research in cryptography under professor Ronald L. Rivest (the "R" of RSA), taking a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1986, and then on to Columbia University, taking a master's degree, also in computer science, in 1995.
Whitfield Diffie and Ron Rivest, the inventors of public-key cryptography and RC4 encryption respectively, testified for Newegg.
The term "software independence" (SI) was coined by Dr. Ron Rivest and NIST researcher John Wack.
After the re-discovery and commercial use of PKI by Rivest, Shamir, Diffie and others, the British government considered releasing the records of GCHQ's successes in this field.
ThreeBallot is a voting protocol invented by Ron Rivest.
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