serpent

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The Serpent block cipher

Serpent is a symmetric key block cipher that was a finalist in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) contest, where it was ranked second to Rijndael. Serpent was designed by Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen.

Installation

Install in your GOPATH: go get -u github.com/aead/serpent

Documentation

Overview

Package serpent implements the Serpent block cipher submitted to the AES challenge. Serpent was designed by Ross Anderson, Eli Biham und Lars Knudsen. The block cipher takes a 128, 192 or 256 bit key and has a block size of 128 bit.

Index

• Constants
• func NewCipher(key []byte) (cipher.Block, error)

Constants

const BlockSize = 16

BlockSize is the serpent block size in bytes.

Functions

func NewCipher

func NewCipher(key []byte) (cipher.Block, error)

NewCipher returns a new cipher.Block implementing the serpent block cipher. The key argument must be 128, 192 or 256 bit (16, 24, 32 byte).