On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:52:31PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:43 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I presume you mean the cipher by Anderson, Biham and Knudsen. > Yep .... was there another one of the same name? >
The linux kernel tree has crypto/serpent.c . > > > I'm unaware of one, but I think it is a fairly bad move to use > > algorithms other than standard ones. Unless you have very good reason > > to use something eperimental, I would stick to AES. > I plan to use them stacked ... so that shouldn't be a problem IMO. What do you hope to gain by that? Not performance. What do you hope to get that you can't get from the standard AES-256? > > Any why should it be just experimental,... wasn't it very well analysed > during the AES selection process? Yes, it was. But the specific implementation you use wasn't as well-analyzed as current implementations of AES are. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100828132731.gb17...@pear.tzafrir.org.il
