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
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on July 23, 2013
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