Serpent Insights

What is Serpent?

Serpent is a symmetric key block cipher that was a finalist in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition. It was designed by Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen. Serpent uses a 128-bit block size and supports key sizes of 128, 192, or 256 bits. It is known for its conservative security margin.

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What other technologies are related to Serpent?

Serpent Competitor Technologies

OpenMC

OpenMC is a Monte Carlo particle transport code, like Serpent, and is therefore a direct competitor for criticality and shielding calculations.

mentioned alongside Serpent in 47% (96) of relevant job posts

MCNP

MCNP is a Monte Carlo particle transport code, like Serpent, and is therefore a direct competitor for criticality and shielding calculations.

mentioned alongside Serpent in 11% (265) of relevant job posts

CASMO

CASMO is a deterministic lattice physics code used for nuclear reactor core analysis, which competes with Serpent, which can also perform lattice physics calculations.

mentioned alongside Serpent in 50% (56) of relevant job posts

Serpent Complementary Technologies

SCALE

SCALE is a comprehensive modeling and simulation suite for nuclear safety, which can utilize Serpent for parts of its calculations, making it complementary.

mentioned alongside Serpent in 8% (151) of relevant job posts

Python

Python is a programming language often used for pre- and post-processing of Serpent calculations, making it complementary to the Serpent code.

mentioned alongside Serpent in 0% (173) of relevant job posts