Mathematician:Horst Feistel

Mathematician
German-American cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers

Initiating research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.

Nationality
German-American

History

 * Born: 30 January 1915 in Berlin, Germany
 * Died: 14 November 1990

Theorems and Definitions

 * Feistel Cipher
 * Feistel Network

Publications

 * 1973: Cryptography and Computer Privacy