GOST for sale

According to a short article in a Swedish newspaper (DN)
with the title 'Spy Code of KGB can make computers safe', 
JETICO INC., located in Finland (Tammerfors), introduced
a new crypto system on the world market last week. It's 
based on GOST, the Russian federal standard algorithm.
This product, called BestCrypt, is implemented at least
partly in hardware. Alledgedly it uses 'GOST 28147-89',
whatever that stands for.

GOST is probably very secure - a huge keyspace (256 bits) and
KGB would not have left a trapdoor for NSA to take advantage
of, would they?

The newspaper article ends:

'The Finnish entrepreneurs asseverate that their
Russian colleagues have never had anything to do
with the KGB.'

Mats

Mats writes:
> JETICO INC., located in Finland (Tammerfors), introduced
> a new crypto system on the world market last week. It's 
> based on GOST, the Russian federal standard algorithm.
> This product, called BestCrypt, is implemented at least
> partly in hardware. Alledgedly it uses 'GOST 28147-89',
> whatever that stands for.

A DejaNews search for "BestCrypt" turned up an announcement by
Sergey Frolov in comp.security.misc
on November 14th. According to him, it implements GOST, single DES, and IDEA.
They have DOS and Windows versions. He says [big sic for this quote]:

	All algorithm available simultaneosly - you may change
	algorithm for your data easy - it's look like to change the password...

	I have non-commercial demo version of the product (370 Kb arjed 
	distributive) and I can send it to people who will be interested in it.

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>