[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Crypto functions
> What crypto functions are considered modern and usable? The list I have
> right now is:
>
> RSA
> IDEA
> DES
> 3DES
> RC4
> RC5
> BLOWFISH
> MD4
> MD5
>
> (and FLAMINGO, a trivial test case, which consists of xor'ing every 8 chars
> with "flamingo".)
>
> Pointers to code for any other schemes will be greatly appreciated.
You might want to include LUC, even though it is fairly new and
extremely cumbersome to implement (though, I would say, not outright
unusable).
Among symmetric ciphers, there's GOST.
And I'd count SHA as a reliable hash function.
--
Mark Chen
[email protected]
415/329-6913
finger for PGP public key
D4 99 54 2A 98 B1 48 0C CF 95 A5 B0 6E E0 1E 1D