11 Feb
2011
11 Feb
'11
11:28 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Niels Möller nisse@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