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- Lucifer was a term once applied to matches tipped with a mixture of potassium chlorate and antimony sulphide, inflamed by friction on a piece of emery paper. These were superseded by a variety of mixtures containing phosphorus. This is still the Dutch name for matches
- Lucifer (X-Men) is a character in the Marvel Comics universe.
- Lucifer (comics) is also a character in an ongoing series published by DC Comics "Vertigo" line.
- Lucifer was the name of a research block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel and his colleagues in the 1970's. It had a 128-bit key but only a 32-bit block size, and was vulnerable to cryptanalysis. It was a forerunner of DES, the US federal data encryption standard.
