is a Japanese

cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More gen ...

and senior researcher for

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Company.

Career

While researching error-correcting codes in 1990, Matsui was inspired by

Eli Biham Eli Biham () is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, afte ...

and

Adi Shamir Adi Shamir (; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification sc ...

differential cryptanalysis Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers, but also to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. In the broadest sense, it is the study of how differences in information input can a ...

, and discovered the technique of

linear cryptanalysis In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine Affine may describe any of various topics concerned with connections or affinities. It may refer to: * Affine, a Affinity_(law)#Terminology, relat ...

, published in 1993. Differential and linear cryptanalysis are the two major general techniques known for the

cryptanalysis Cryptanalysis (from the Greek ''kryptós'', "hidden", and ''analýein'', "to analyze") refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems. Cryptanalysis is used to breach cryptographic se ...

block cipher In cryptography, a block cipher is a deterministic algorithm that operates on fixed-length groups of bits, called ''blocks''. Block ciphers are the elementary building blocks of many cryptographic protocols. They are ubiquitous in the storage a ...

s. The following year, Matsui was the first to publicly report an experimental cryptanalysis of DES, using the computing power of twelve

workstation A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or computational science, scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating syste ...

s over a period of fifty days. He is also the author of the MISTY-1 and MISTY-2

s, and contributed to the design of

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and KASUMI. For his achievements, Matsui got the 2012 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics.

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