Carlisle Adams

Carlisle M. Adams is a Canadian cryptographer and computer security researcher. He was formerly senior cryptographer at Entrust and is a professor at the University of Ottawa. His notable work includes the design, together with Stafford Tavares, of the block ciphers CAST-128 and CAST-256, whose S-boxes are based on the non-linear properties of bent functions. He helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography workshop in 1994, and he co-chaired that workshop with Howard Heys in 1999. He is a co-author of several Internet RFCs, among them the documents that describe the CAST-128 and CAST-256 encryption algorithms, and he is the security advisor of the Ottawa electronic signature company Signority.