insecure algorithm (was: Re: [PGP-USERS] BestCryp NP)
Ulf Möller
3umoelle at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Fri Apr 11 15:20:02 PDT 1997
>>>BestCrypt NP costs $115, the home page is www.jetico.sci.fi.
>>>They even have our Mr Peter Gutmann on their credits list. BestCrypt
>>>supports BlowFish, DES (boo) and GOST, a russian standard with
>>>256bit key.
One would hope that they have also read and understood Peter's warning
about the GOST algorithm ("More thoughts on GOST", 17 Aug 1996,
<4v4ptc$42e at net.auckland.ac.nz>).
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