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Re: CAST
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attended a presentation by Milkyway, vendor of the BlackHole firewall, which also does VPN.
> Supposedly the symmetric cipher used in the VPN is called CAST. Anyone has any info on it?
> TIA. Cheers.
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.
PLUR
chris
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Chris Kuethe <[email protected]> LPGV Electronics and Controls
<[email protected]> http://www.ualberta.ca/~ckuethe/
RSA in 2 lines of PERL lives at http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`