Horst Feistel

Cryptographer, Academic

1915 – 1990

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Who was Horst Feistel?

Horst Feistel was a German-born 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.

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Born
Jan 30, 1915
Berlin
Nationality
  • Germany
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employment
  • IBM
Lived in
  • Berlin
Died
Nov 14, 1990

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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