Overview#

GOST refers to a set of technical standards maintained by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC), a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

GOST Cryptographic Hash Functions#

GOST is a series of Cryptographic Hash Function and a Block Cipher

GOST was initially defined in the Russia national standard GOST R 34.11-94 Information Technology – Cryptographic Information Security – Hash Function

The equivalent standard used by other member-states of the CIS is GOST 34.311-95.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• RFC 4491

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• [#1] - GOST_(hash_function) - based on information obtained 2018-05-07-