Cryptographe
Horst Feistel
German-American cryptographer (1915 - 1990)
- Vie
- 1915 – 1990
- Né(e) le
- 30 janvier 1915
- Décédé(e) le
- 14 novembre 1990
- Nationalité
- Allemagne, États-Unis
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.




