Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits. It was one of the five finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard contest, but it was not selected for standardization. <read on>
Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits. It was one of the five finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard contest, but it was not selected for standardization. <read on>
Secure Hash Algorithm 2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).
The SHA-2 family consists of multiple closely related hash functions. It is essentially a single algorithm in which a few minor parameters are different among the variants. The initial spec covered four variants with output sizes of 224, 256, 384 and 512 bits. <read on>
BassOmatic was the symmetric-key cipher designed by Phil Zimmermann as part of his email encryption software PGP. Comments in the source code indicate that he had been designing the cipher since as early as 1988, but it was not publicly released until 1991. After Eli Biham pointed out to him several serious weaknesses in the BassOmatic algorithm over lunch at the 1991 CRYPTO conference, Zimmermann replaced it with IDEA in subsequent versions of PGP. <read on>