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Re: CAST
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
>[email protected]
>---------------------------------------
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.