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Re: CAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Feb 4 16:29:51 1997
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
X-Charge-To: pgut001
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 05:09:46 (NZDT)
I've just had mail from Carlisle Adams in response to my question about the
status of CAST-128:
>CAST-128 is available free for commercial and non-commercial use. This
>has been stated publicly in a press release from Entrust Technologies
>(see http://www.entrust.com/press.htm for details). The cipher
>itself is described in complete detail, along with test vectors, etc.,
>at the same web site (see the "Technical Papers" section of
>http://www.entrust.com/library.htm).
>
>Feel free to post this response wherever you think it appropriate.
>
>--------------------------------------
>Carlisle Adams
>Entrust Technologies
>cadams@entrust.com
>---------------------------------------
The algorithm is well worth looking at (see the URL above) - it's a nice
royalty-free drop-in replacement for IDEA for example. I've had a version
half-finished for inclusion in cryptlib for a few months now, but something
else always seems to crop up...
Peter.
