Alex, it might be that we lose: "Michael H. Warfield" wrote on gnupg-devel: > <snip> > Serpent apparently is subject to a claim by Hitachi that it holds > a patent over some aspect of it. Rumor has it that it's out of the race. > That's based on a coderpunks posting which I have not been able to > independently verify. > <snip> Marc -- Marc Mutz <Marc@xxxxxxxx> http://marc.mutz.com/Encryption-HOWTO/ University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH) Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
