Lucifer (cipher)

In cryptography, Lucifer was the name given to several of the earliest civilian block ciphers, developed by Horst Feistel and his colleagues at IBM. Lucifer was a direct precursor to the Data Encryption Standard. One version, alternatively named DTD-1, saw commercial use in the 1970s for electronic banking.

Lucifer
General
DesignersHorst Feistel et al.
First published1971
SuccessorsDES
Cipher detail
Key sizes48, 64 or 128 bits
Block sizes48, 32 or 128 bits
StructureSubstitution–permutation network, Feistel network
Rounds16
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