Horst Feistel
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 34 years ago |
Date of birth | January 30,1915 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Berlin |
Germany | |
Date of died | November 14,1990 |
Died | Massachusetts |
United States | |
Known for | Feistel cipher |
Education | Harvard University |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Nationality | American |
German | |
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ID | 1471426 |
Horst Feistel Life story
Horst Feistel was a German-American cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard in the 1970s. The structure used in DES, called a Feistel network, is commonly used in many block ciphers.