Kevin Hilton wrote: > would seem that Serpent and 3DES have a lot in common -- slowness, but > security.
Arguably true. > How a cipher like cast5, but not Serpent could be > included, other than for historical reasons, is beyond me. Purely historical reasons. Also, the SERPENT design team, much like the Twofish design team, is strongly pushing abandoning the AES also-rans and using AES. A lot of people think CAST5's selection as PGP 5's encryption algorithm was a mistake, given the ready availability of 3DES. CAST5 is also not very well known or well liked outside of OpenPGP. Schneier, for instance, has said "I give a big 'yuck!' to the design process." (Some people think this is because CAST5 is very similar to Blowfish and Schneier is feeling protective of his own algorithm, however.) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
