From: "C. Kuethe" <ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:03:28 -0800 (PST)
To: Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@pacific.net.sg>
Subject: Re: CAST
Message-ID: <199701312003.MAA21433@toad.com>
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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 <ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> LPGV Electronics and Controls
        <c100305@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca> http://www.ualberta.ca/~ckuethe/
RSA in 2 lines of PERL lives at http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/          
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)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`