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This is the first and (at the moment) only VB implementation of the powerhouse encryption algorithm "Serpent". This implementation is slow but none-the-less works perfectly. Serpent is a 256-bit encryption algorithm developed as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It doesn't match up to the speed and security of Rijndael, Twofish or Blowfish but it definitely is worthy of academic consideration. I wouldn't recommend using this specific implementation in commercial products but it is an excellent academic resource for all you budding cryptographers and security minded people. Feel free to distribute this implementation all you want as long as original credit is left rendered. Backup link for this zip is at http://www.verino.com/~fyool2000/davidm/vbcrypto/Serpent.zip.

My name is David Midkiff. Chris Midnight, Antonily Razin and I created this implementation of Serpent entire. I was assigned to converting, optimizing, overhauling and distributing this implementation to make it easy to use and faster for Visual Basic programmers. Special thanks to Antonily for his genius help on porting the C code structure into VB. If you've got work look for him on rentacoder.com. All questions can be directed to me at mdj2023@hotmail.com. I try to respond to everyone.

This is meant for academic purposes. There is a patent action by the algorithm authors but royalty free use is offered to conforming implementations. I wouldn't recommend using this VB implementation in commercial products due to its speed but it is an excellent academic resource for cryptographers and programmers alike. Enjoy!

This is dedicated to Lindsey, my girlfriend, who puts up with my 24 hour computer marathons and still loves me despite my insane ways. :) Love ya girl!