Cryptography (2)
The most popular symmetric encryption algorithms
- DES - Data Encryption Algorithm - official US Government encryption standard (56 bit + 8 bit checksum = 64 bit)
- 3DES - Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (112 bit, 168 bit) 3DES-EE3, 3DES-EDE3, 3DES-EEE2, 3DES-EDE2
- IDEA - International Data Encryption Algorithm
- RC4 - Rivest Cipher 4 (128 bit)
- AES - Advanced Encryption Standard ( expected in year 2000)
The most popular asymmetric encryption algorithms
- D-H Diffie Hellman
- RSA - Rivest Shamir Adleman (1024 bit)
- DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm (1024 bit)
- ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem