Serpent (disambiguation)

Serpent can be any of the following:

• Serpent is another term for snake.
• Among musical instruments, a Serpent is member of the brass family.
• In astronomy, several constellations are identified as serpents .
• In cryptography, the Serpent cipher is a symmetric key block cipher developed by Ross Anderson and colleagues for the AES competition. It was one of the finalists.
• The British Royal Navy ship HMS Serpent crashed into the rocks on Trece beach during a storm on the night of November 10th, 1890, killing 172 sailors. This occurred in NW Spain, off the coast of Finisterre (The Death Coast).
• "The Serpent" is a nickname of serial killer Charles Sobhraj.