Question about history of hash and cipher collections

[Kevin Hilton]

Sorry about my post

Whatever happened to the tiger hash??

Lastly, do you know the reason that the serpent cipher algorithm never
made it into gpg.  From the NSA competition, I thought the serpent
algorithm came in second --- again Im not sure of the criteria that
was used to judge strength -- but wasnt it from this competition that
the US gov adopted AES as the national standard?  Ive seen