Nortel "Entrust"
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Fri Mar 1 08:57:11 PST 1996
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
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