Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Request for opinions: canadian cryptographic standard.
Summary: A Chip!
Keywords: des canada nsa us
Message-ID: <2508@geac.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 13:20:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2508
Posted: Tue Mar 29 08:20:08 1988
References: <2463@geac.UUCP> <17654@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2475@geac.UUCP> <2414@unicus.UUCP> <1009@thumper.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <1009@thumper.bellcore.com> karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>Surely there must be plenty of independent expertise out there that
>hasn't sold their souls either to the NSA or IBM (or non-US counterparts
>thereof).  Why can't they get together and develop an informal
>"counterstandard" secret-key encryption algorithm as an alternative to
>DES? 

  Well, we may have a chip-level product already: I just spoke to
Gord Agnew of the University of Waterloo, who was kend enough to
pass on an advance spec sheet for the CalMos CA34C168 Public Key
Encryption Processor, designed in concert with Cryptech Systems and
UW.
  In brief:
	CMOS VLSI Cryptographic device, 40-pin dip
	Public key or conventional cryptosystems
	Block size 600 bits or greater
	2 stream and 2 block cypher modes
	Generates digital signatures, message authentication codes 

  This was written up in the Science column of the Toronto Star last
January (17 Jan 87) when the companies first got together.
  The principal designers were from Waterloo: Gordon Agnew, Faculty
of Engineering, Ron Mullin and Scott Vanstone, Faculty of Math, and
Ivan Onyzschuk with help from the University commercial deveopment
officer, Robert Nally.
  The implementers are CalMos Systems Inc., Canata, Ontario.
Regrettably, I don't have their address (although the above is
probably sifficent: Canata is a smallish suburb of Ottawa (:-))



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