Carlisle M. Adams is a cryptographer and computer security researcher. Formerly senior cryptographer at Entrust,^[1] he is currently a professor at the University of Ottawa. His notable work includes the design (with Stafford Tavares) of the block ciphers CAST-128 and CAST-256. He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) workshop in 1994.

Adams received his M.Sc. degree in computing and information science from Queen's University with a 1985 thesis on the McEliece cryptosystem. His 1990 electrical engineering Ph.D. thesis was on the design of substitution-permutation networks.

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• Carlisle Adams's page at uOttawa

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