Kevin Hilton wrote:
I can see you seem to know a lot about gpg -- thanks.
He should; he's one of the GnuPG authors.
Just a question, b/c from my very elementary understanding of ciphers, it seems like serpent is a very secure standard.
Serpent was developed by some very smart people. However, /all/ the AES finalists were considered to be very competent designs. What caused NIST to select Rijndael over Serpent were factors other than security--speed, ability to fit in a smart card, key agility, etc. (Rijndael, pronounced "rain-doll", was ultimately selected to become AES. When talking about the history of AES, it's helpful to call it by its old name.)
I believe looking at the source code (either in pgg or pgp2 -- I cant remember) I even saw a serpent.c file.
It wasn't in pgp 2.x, since Serpent came out almost a decade after pgp 2.x. There has never been an official GnuPG build that has supported Serpent, to the best of my knowledge. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
