Interview with Ronald L. Rivest about Cryptography and Quantum Information Theory

Ronald L. Rivest, Founder of the Cryptography and Information Security Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Co-Inventor of the RSA, the oldest widely used encryption technology for secure data transmission. The initialism RSA comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977. Rivest is a Professor at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Interview made in June 2025. Boston, Massachusetts. The Post-Quantum Cryptography Inquiry is a video survey into the Science of Cryptography in the face of the Quantum Technology threat. This investigation aims to offer insights through video interviews with major experts in Cryptography, Quantum Physics, Mathematics, and Cybersecurity. https://post-quantum-cryptography-inq...