Howard Heys

{{Short description|Cryptographer}}

Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, a retired professor 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 cryptanalyses of such block ciphers as RC5 and CIKS-1. He has served twice as co-chair of the Selected Areas in Cryptography workshop: with Carlisle Adams in 1999, and with Kaisa Nyberg in 2002.{{cite web | first = Doug | last = Stinson | authorlink = Doug Stinson | title = Current and Previous Workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography | url = http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/SAC/previous.html | publisher = University of Waterloo | accessdate = April 24, 2009}}

Heys received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Queen's University. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with his wife and two children.