Serpent

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Feb 11 16:41:25 CET 2011


On 02/11/2011 05:39 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> I'am just repeating myself and might become annoying... but does it
> really worth the time? Is there anyone using that algorithm, or anyone
> planning to use it? As it stands now serpent is an academic cipher,
> it is not used in any protocol.

I know people who use serpent with Linux's dm-crypt for encrypted block
devices.  It's not entirely academic.  having multiple implementations
of serpent would be a Good Thing.

	--dkg



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