Mitsuru Matsui: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Mitsuru Matsui is a Japanese cryptographer and senior researcher for Mitsubishi Electric Company. In 1993, he published a paper outlining the method of linear cryptanalysis applied to the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher. The following year he was the first to (publicly report) an experimental cryptanalysis of DES, using the computing power of twelve workstations over a period of fifty days. He is the author of the MISTY-1 and MISTY-2 block ciphers, and contributed to the design of Camellia.