GOST is not a block cipher, it's the acronym for GOsudarstvennyi
STandard, which means State Standard. It's not dedicated to cryptography.
Speaking of GOST standard is redundant, but clearer for non russian
locutors.
There's a block cipher (poorly) defined as a GOST standard, referenced
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Erwann Abalea
erwann.aba...@keynectis.com wrote:
GOST is not a block cipher, it's the acronym for GOsudarstvennyi STandard,
which means State Standard. It's not dedicated to cryptography.
My apologies. I thought you were referring to the GOST block cipher.
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