NAME: Serpent
CREATOR: Ross Anderson, Eli Biham and Lars Knudsen
PB AUTHOR: Greg Turgeon
DESCRIPTION: A 128-bit block cipher, finalist in the AES competition losing only to Rijndael. Serpent and Rijndael are in fact somewhat similar; the main difference is that Rijndael is faster (having fewer rounds) but Serpent is more secure.
NOTES: Please read source header for implementation notes.
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