17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jonathon Fletcher writes:
Can anyone tell me anything about a product called "Entrust", by Nortel (Northern Telecom). The notes talk about the software using DES ("which employs a 56-bit key") so I guess it's single DES, not triple DES. It also mentions a proprietary algorithm called CAST.
Is this worthy of further investigation, or is it suspect ? What is CAST, and would it be classed as snake oil ?
"Entrust" was built by Smart People. Of course, any given component of it is only as strong as the underlying algorithms; you yourself are probably aware of the problems associated with DES vs 3DES and such. I would suggest examining the documents. I don't know anything about CAST. Perry