# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horst-feistel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:45:21.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horst-feistel"
name: "Horst Feistel"
slug: "horst-feistel"
description: "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."
tagline: "German cryptographer (1915–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-01-30"
deathDate: "1990-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Горст Файстель"
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    title: "Horst Feistel"
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    title: "Horst Feistel"
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    title: "Horst Feistel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump