Carlisle Adams

A cryptographer and security expert, best known for designing the CAST family of block ciphers.

He did his PhD at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario with Stafford Tavares as supervisor. Later he held positions as senior cryptographer at Nortel Secure Networks and at Entrust after that company was spun out of Nortel.

Currently he is a professor at University of Ottawa. He has a home page there.