Cryptographer
Horst Feistel
German-American cryptographer (1915 - 1990)
- Life
- 1915 – 1990
- Born
- January 30, 1915
- Died
- November 14, 1990
- Nationality
- Germany, United States
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 (DES) in the 1970s. The structure used in DES, called a Feistel network, is commonly used in many block ciphers.
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