Howard Heys

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Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, currently chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the 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.

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