On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
