Crypto functions

[Mark Chen]

> 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.


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