CAST

Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:28:53 -0500

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At 07:29 PM 7/16/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>Anonymous writes:
>> OK...just saying that, if anyone feels a need to use Twofish at this
>> point, combine it with something old; CAST just happened to be the first
>> moderately old cipher that popped to mind.
>
>CAST can't even be three years old.

CAST papers are older than that. There are a lot of CAST algorithms. Some have been beaten up somewhat; some haven't. I don't buy the design process. And I DON'T like CAST-256.

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