Rivest Reveals the Origins of RSA Encryption 🔐
Discover how Ron Rivest, along with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, developed the groundbreaking RSA encryption algorithm. Insights from a Turing Award laureate on the history and impact of this cryptographic milestone.

Turing Awardee Clips
2.0K views • Jun 23, 2020

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Ron Rivest, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses his work with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir as young MIT faculty members to produce the RSA public key cryptosystem. This clip taken from an interview conducted with Rivest by Roy Levin for ACM on December 6, 2016. Video of the full interview is available as part of Rivest’s ACM profile at https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/rivest_1403005.cfm.
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