17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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 chen@intuit.com 415/329-6913 finger for PGP public key D4 99 54 2A 98 B1 48 0C CF 95 A5 B0 6E E0 1E 1D