Hi > I just wanted to jump in and say that I'm personally a fan of Serpent. I > like to use something that's a little less popular, but still open. It is > similar in strength (IMHO), but there will be more people trying to break > AES than Serpent. For example, I've read the XSL attack that can weaken AES > is too complex when used on Serpent -- it would be more expensive than a > brute force attack.
in my opinion quite a bad assumption. the more a crypto algorithm is open, the more people it test, the more it can be assumed that it is safe against current known attacks. greets pete -- [email protected] mailing list
