Ronald L. Rivest
CSAIL, 32 Vassar Street, Room 32-G692,
Cambridge MA 02139
617-253-5880, or 617-258-8682 (fax)
rivestATmit.edu (change "AT" to an "at" sign)
(I have, at least for now, decommissioned my previous challenge/response
spam filter. No special protocol is required to send me email. This
may change again in the future. I still get too much email, and
can't always answer (or answer promptly).
)
The best way to contact me is usually through my assistant:
Professor Rivest is the
Andrew and Erna Viterbi
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in
MIT's
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He is a member of
MIT's
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),
a member of the lab's
Theory of Computation Group
and a founder of its
Cryptography and Information
Security Group.
He is also a founder of
RSA Data Security,
now named
RSA Security
(the security division of EMC)
and of
Peppercoin.
Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and
network security, electronic voting, and algorithms.