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