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Ronald Linn Rivest
* May 6, 1947, Schenectady, New York, USA
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2002
Together with Leonard M. Adleman and Adi Shamir, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
Together with Leonard M. Adleman and Adi Shamir, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.