NODE 2e1c895fRe: [PGP-USERS] BestCryp NP
Alec <camcc@abraxis.com>Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: GWNapier@aol.com
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:11:41 -0400 (EDT)
>To: pgp-users@rivertown.net
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>To Fred and His Question About BestCrypt NP. I received this today and
>thought it might be of interest.
>
>>Someone asked on the list about the possibility to transparently access
>>encrypted data on a CD. SFS doesn't allow this, but I yesterday found
>>a software for Windows 95 that does.
>
>>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. It supports all fixed, removable or networked media,
>>allowing upto 6 "containers" be open simultaneously.
>
>>Although the company seems like Finnish, they don't speak Finnish and
>>I don't get even a discount for telling you this :) Just thought some
>>of you might be interested.
>
>>Jyrki Petsalo
NODE 288a1826insecure algorithm (was: Re: [PGP-USERS] BestCryp NP)
3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
>>>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@net.auckland.ac.nz>).