Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

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?


> 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.

Any why should it be just experimental,... wasn't it very well analysed
during the AES selection process?


Cheers,
Chris.