[117] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: CAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Fri Jan 31 21:56:49 1997
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
To: ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
X-Charge-To: pgut001
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 15:00:01 (NZDT)
>It's a canadian cipher. It's inventors have the initials C.A. and S.T. pure
>coincidence they say. it's got a little write-up in Appl. Crypto 2, and I'll
>post anything I can about it as soon as I get home. I don't have my copy of
>ac2 on me... I do remember that it's patented, and you have to talk to these
>folks for licences I believe.... more to come later.
According to a reliable source they've made CAST-128 available for anyone to
use without royalties, although I have yet to see documentation from Nortel
confirming this. It's a very nice cipher, I'm somewhat surprised it hasn't
received any more attention.
Peter.
