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Ron Rivest, an Uncommon card
Ronald Linn Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Ron Rivest quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ron Rivest card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is also the inventor of the ______ key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6.
Answer
symmetric. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. From the Ron Rivest article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, for which they won the ____ ACM Turing Award.
Answer
2000s. Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award. From the Ron Rivest article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award.
- He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ron Rivest article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ron Rivest (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ronald L. Rivest, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
