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Lucifer

Summary

Lucifer is a Feistel cipher[1]. Lucifer draws 43 Wikipedia views per month (feistel_cipher category, ranking #8 of 24).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lucifer's instance of is recorded as Feistel cipher[3].
  • Lucifer's designed by is recorded as Horst Feistel[4].
  • Lucifer's designed by is recorded as IBM[5].
  • Lucifer's publication date is recorded as +1971-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • Lucifer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_t4b[7].
  • Lucifer's replaced by is recorded as Data Encryption Standard[8].
  • Lucifer's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Lucifer-algorithm[9].

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Designation and Status

Lucifer's instance of is recorded as Feistel cipher[3].

Why It Matters

Lucifer draws 43 Wikipedia views per month (feistel_cipher category, ranking #8 of 24).[2] Lucifer has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

Related Entities

Horst Feistel IBM

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Lucifer. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/lucifer-q1343482
MLA “Lucifer.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/lucifer-q1343482.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_lucifer-q1343482_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Lucifer}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/lucifer-q1343482}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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