Serpent

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Niels Möller <nisse at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> As it stands now serpent is an academic cipher,
>> it is not used in any protocol.
> It's specified as an optional algorithm in the ssh protocol (see RFC
> 4253 and RFC 4344).

Ah, I didn't know that.

> That said, I think the main use for serpent or any other of the losing
> aes finalists are as backups in case some serious problem is discovered
> with aes.

Nowdays this is also camellia for that purpose...

regards,
Nikos