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

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).