Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:52:31PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 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? > The linux kernel tree has crypto/serpent.c

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:29 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I plan to use them stacked ... so that shouldn't be a problem IMO. > > Is your machine too speedy? There are other things you could do to > slow it down if that's important to you. *g* ... I'm already using mprime for that ;) > Yes,

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:52:31 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 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 fai

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
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

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:51:19 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Is there a implementation of SERPENT (for file encryption, not > disk) in Debian, except mcrypt (which is buggy and orphaned > according to its package description)? > > I mean a finished tool, not just a library. I presume you

SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Is there a implementation of SERPENT (for file encryption, not disk) in Debian, except mcrypt (which is buggy and orphaned according to its package description)? I mean a finished tool, not just a library. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w