[44111] in Cypherpunks
Re: GOST for sale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Wed Nov 29 02:32:39 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 02:28:13 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951124033807.19699B-100000@cor.sos.sll.se> from "Mats Bergstrom" at Nov 24, 95 03:43:25 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Mats writes:
> JETICO INC., located in Finland (Tammerfors), introduced
> a new crypto system on the world market last week. It's
> based on GOST, the Russian federal standard algorithm.
> This product, called BestCrypt, is implemented at least
> partly in hardware. Alledgedly it uses 'GOST 28147-89',
> whatever that stands for.
A DejaNews search for "BestCrypt" turned up an announcement by
<a href="mailto:ser@iae.nsk.su">Sergey Frolov</a> in comp.security.misc
on November 14th. According to him, it implements GOST, single DES, and IDEA.
They have DOS and Windows versions. He says [big sic for this quote]:
All algorithm available simultaneosly - you may change
algorithm for your data easy - it's look like to change the password...
I have non-commercial demo version of the product (370 Kb arjed
distributive) and I can send it to people who will be interested in it.
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
