Changing preferences

[Kevin Hilton]

Thanks for the quoted sections from Applied Cryptography.  Just to
throw more fuel on the fire, however from the quoted material, it
would seem that Serpent and 3DES have a lot in common -- slowness, but
security.  Again a lot of ciphers are already included in GnuPG, many
it seems for historical reasons, that could be made read only as many
have suggested.  How a cipher like cast5, but not Serpent could be
included, other than for historical reasons, is beyond me.  Again as I
have been told on this list, in selecting an AES winner, a lot more
factors were considered than just plain security, hence the reason why
Serpent was never the AES standard.

I'll stop ranting now.

-- 
Kevin Hilton