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1 Life and work

Feistel was born in Berlin in 1915, and moved to the United States in 1934. During World War II, he was placed under house arrest, but at the end of the war he soon became a US citizen on 31 January 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin;. The following day he was granted a security clearance and began work for the US Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC) on Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) devices until the 1950sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb.. He was subsequently employed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, then the Mitre Corporation , and finally IBM, where he received an award for his cryptographic work.

Feistel obtained a Bachelor's degree at MIT, and his Master's at Harvard, both in Physics. He married his wife Leona in 1945, with whom he had a daughter.

2 References

• Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau (1998). Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption.
• Horst Feistel, "Cryptography and Computer Privacy", Scientific American, Vol. 228, No.5 , 1973. (JPEG format scanned)
• Horst Feistel, H, W. Notz, J. Lynn Smith. "Some cryptographic techniques for machine-to-machine data communications", IEEE proceedings, 63(11), 1545–1554, 1975.
• Levy, Steven - , 2001.

3 External links

• Genealogical notes for Horst Feistel

4 Notes

⁽¹⁾ Both (Diffie and Landau, 1998), and (Levy, 2001) give Feistel's birth year as 1914. The dates included here are based on the genealogical notes.