gost

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This Russian abbreviation stands for the State Standard ("GO" = Gossudarstvo = State and "ST" = Standard) This name is also used to describe the product certification system in existence in Russia today, under which goods must be certified for conformity to the safety requirements of Russian state standards

a Soviet standard for symmetric key cryptography and hash functions, with a 256-bit key See Applied Cryptography section 14 1

a Soviet government standard block cipher Applied Cryptography has details