Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:

> 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).

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.

Regards,
/Niels

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