Serpent

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Serpent

Summary

Serpent is a block cipher[1]. Serpent ranks in the top 7% of block_cipher entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Serpent's image is recorded as Serpent-linearfunction.png[3].
  • Serpent's instance of is recorded as block cipher[4].
  • Serpent's designed by is recorded as Ross J. Anderson[5].
  • Serpent's designed by is recorded as Eli Biham[6].
  • Serpent's designed by is recorded as Lars Ramkilde Knudsen[7].
  • Serpent's publication date is recorded as +1997-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Serpent's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0222px[9].
  • Serpent's official website is recorded as http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html[10].
  • Serpent's described by source is recorded as Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, 2nd edition[11].
  • Serpent's block size is recorded as {'unit': 'Q8805', 'amount': '+64'}[12].
  • Serpent's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.13.2[13].

Body

Designation and Status

Serpent's instance of is recorded as block cipher[4].

Why It Matters

Serpent ranks in the top 7% of block_cipher entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2] Serpent has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . cs.technion.ac.il. Retrieved . cs.technion.ac.il. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Serpent. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/serpent-q1501904
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_serpent-q1501904_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Serpent}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/serpent-q1501904}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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