Carlisle Adams

Carlisle M. Adams
Residence	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship	Canadian
Fields	Cryptology, Computer security
Institutions	University of Ottawa
Alma mater	University of Guelph (B.Sc.) Queen's University (M.Sc, PhD)

Carlisle M. Adams is a Canadian cryptographer and computer security researcher. Formerly senior cryptographer at Entrust, 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, whose S-boxes are based on the non-linear properties of bent functions. He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) workshop in 1994. He is also the security advisor of the Ottawa-based electronic signature company Signority.