Inventor

Ronald L. Rivest

Patents indexed

Year range

1983

Associated with

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Years active

1983

Total patents

Most recent

1983

Frequent collaborator

Adi Shamir

Domains

softwaretelecommunicationscybersecurityfinanceecommerceconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1980s

Patents

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1 patents, in 1983

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1983 — How RSA Public-Key Encryption Keeps Digital Messages Secret

US 4405829·1983·Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How RSA Public-Key Encryption Keeps Digital Messages Secret

This patent describes the foundational RSA algorithm, a method for securely sending messages where anyone can encrypt a message using a public key, but only the intended recipient can decrypt it using a secret private key.

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