Howard Heys

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Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, currently chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research includes the design and analysis of stream and block ciphers and efficient hardware implementations of them; he participated in the design of CAST-256 and has published notable cryptanalyses of such block ciphers as RC5 and CIKS-1.

Heys received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Queen's University.

Heys now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with his wife Leslee, son Bill, and daughter Erin.

[edit] External links

• Howard Heys's page at MUN

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NAME	Heys, Howard M.
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