Introduction

So what is implemented in CryptAda?

At this time, and beyond some support functionality, CryptAda provides:

• Text encoders that allow to encode binary information into text and to decode the text into the corresponding binary data. The text encoders currently implemented in CryptAda are:

  • Hexadecimal text encoder. Encodes binary data into sequences of hexadecimal digits.
  • Base16 text encoder. Implemented according the RFC 4648
  • Base64 text encoder. Implemented according the RFC 4648
  • MIME encoder. Implemented according the RFC 2045

• Cryptographic hash functions that map data of arbitrary length into fixed length hashes. These functions are also known as message digests.

  • MD2 (Wikipedia). Implemented according RFC 1319
  • MD4 (Wikipedia). Implemented according RFC 1320
  • MD5 (Wikipedia). Implemented according RFC 1321
  • SHA-1 (Wikipedia)
  • SHA-2 (224, 256, 384, and 512-bit hashes) (Wikipedia)
  • SHA-3 (224, 256, 384, and 512-bit hashes) (Wikipedia)
  • RIPEMD (128, 160, 256, and 320-bit hashes) (Wikipedia)
  • Snefru (128, and 256-bit hashes with security level 4 or 8) (Wikipedia)
  • Tiger (128, 160, and 192-bit hashes with 3 or 4 passes) (Wikipedia)
  • HAVAL (128, 160, 192, 224, and 256-bit hashes with 3 .. 5 passes) (Wikipedia)
  • Whirlpool (512-bit hashes) (Wikipedia)
  • BLAKE-1 (224, 256, 384, and 512-bit hashes) (Wikipedia)
  • BLAKE-2s (Wikipedia)
  • BLAKE-2b (Wikipedia)

• Cryptographical secure random generators that generate sequences of pseudorandom bytes.

  • RSA Reference implementation.
  • An experimental CryptAda RNG based on two hash algorithms.

• Block ciphers

  • DES (Wikipedia)
  • DESX (Wikipedia)
  • DES2X
  • TDEA (Triple DES EDE) (Wikipedia)
  • CAST-128 (Wikipedia)
  • AES (Wikipedia)
  • Blowfish (Wikipedia)
  • RC2 (Wikipedia)
  • IDEA (Wikipedia)
  • Twofish (Wikipedia)

• Stream ciphers

  • RC4 (Wikipedia)