This is even useful, after a fashion, in that it shows there's nothing specifically Romanian about the Romanian morons in question, but that their sad state is merely the necessary result of systematically following a stupid strategy (something I, and as far as I know I alone, always suspected).

Because in the end that's how you build, Romanias and Uruguays and any other Orcistan : by systematically being you, by making your sort of committments to the saeculum and then attempting to adapt the Republic to them "as best one can", which is to say without waking up the insignificant other in the other room.

It doesn't work, lay off it.

Given a message M of size m and a key K, the enciphered message E = M xor keccak(input = K, output size=m).

M is then retreived as E xor keccak(K).

Works with any key size and message size you want.

For instance, I have no intention to ever upgrade the eulora crypto lib currently being brewed. I don't believe in upgrades, nor really ever have. So in this sense, there's no need for a symmetric cipher anymore, Serpent won.

There is some space for an alternate, perhaps stronger, crypto lib for usage in a republican replacement of GPG, for which FFA looks like a strong basis (and where the much belated Cramer-Shoup implementation may have a good home). It is possible this may want a symmetric cipher for some purpose, but honestly I expect it will be in the vein of (if not likely exactly) MPFHF, which is to say algorithmic rather than algebraic. If at all present, which seems altogether improbable currently.

In short -- there was not so much known demand for this category of item, and it missed out on the little that there was.