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diff --git a/security/p5-Crypt-Serpent/pkg-descr b/security/p5-Crypt-Serpent/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0c0fde3e3d5d --- /dev/null +++ b/security/p5-Crypt-Serpent/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Serpent was designed by Ross Anderson, Eli Biham and Lars Knudsen +as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard. It has been +selected as one of the five finalists in the AES competition. +Serpent is faster than DES and more secure than Triple DES. It +provides users with a very high level of assurance that no shortcut +attack will be found. To achieve this, the algorithm's designers +limited themselves to well understood cryptography mechanisms, so +that they could rely on the wide experience and proven techniques +of block cipher cryptanalysis. The algorithm uses twice as many +rounds as are necessary to block all currently known shortcut +attacks. This means that Serpent should be safe against as yet +unknown attacks that may be capable of breaking the standard 16 +rounds used in many types of encryption today. However, the fact +that Serpent uses so many rounds means that it is the slowest of +the five AES finalists. But this shouldn't be an issue because it +still outperforms Triple DES. The algorithm's designers maintain +that Serpent has a service life of at least a century. |