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Ron Rivest

@ronrivest

American cryptographer

Building RSA as Founder · United States

Key facts

Born
1947
Educated at
Stanford University · Yale University · Niskayuna High School · Timothy Dwight College

About

Ron Rivest is a mathematician and cryptologist, born in 1947 in Schenectady. They studied at Stanford University.

In context

RSA was founded in 1986 and has no closure on record. Among the 52 other computer security companies we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 10 years.

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Ron's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.

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