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List of common symmetric encryption algorithms with their block and key size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name<\/strong><\/td>Block Size<\/strong><\/td>Key Size<\/strong><\/td>Notes<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
AES Advanced Encryption Standard<\/td>128<\/td>128, 192, 256<\/td>Is Rijndael<\/td><\/tr>
Rijndael<\/td>Variable<\/td>128, 192, 256<\/td>Is AES<\/td><\/tr>
Blowfish <\/td>64<\/td>32-448<\/td>Often used in SSH<\/td><\/tr>
DES Data Encryption Standard<\/td>64<\/td>56<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Triple DES<\/td>64<\/td>112-168<\/td>DES 3 times<\/td><\/tr>
IDEA<\/td>64<\/td>128<\/td>Used in PGP<\/td><\/tr>
RC4 Rivest Cipher 4<\/td>Stream Cipher<\/td>40-2048<\/td>Insecure\/Not used, used in WEP, WPA, and SSL<\/td><\/tr>
RC5 Rivest Cipher 5<\/td>32, 64, 128<\/td>0-2040<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
RC6 Rivest Cipher 6<\/td>128<\/td>128, 192, 256<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Skipjack<\/td>64<\/td>80<\/td>Developed by the NSA and supported key escrow<\/td><\/tr>
CAST-128<\/td>64<\/td>40-128<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
CAST-256<\/td>128<\/td>128, 160, 192, 224, 256<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Twofish<\/td>128<\/td>1-256<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
ChaCha20<\/td>Stream Cipher<\/td>256<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
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List of Common Symmetric Encryption Algorithms With Block and Key Size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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List of common symmetric encryption algorithms with their block and key size. Name Block Size Key Size Notes AES Advanced Encryption Standard 128 128, 192, 256 Is Rijndael Rijndael Variable 128, 192, 256 Is AES Blowfish 64 32-448 Often used … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1644,573],"tags":[1393,1589,1270,1645,1587,1642,1640,1597,1371,1591,1594,1588,1641,1595,221,1596,1590],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-security","tag-aes","tag-blowfish","tag-certification","tag-certifications","tag-chacha20","tag-cism","tag-cissp","tag-cryptography","tag-learning","tag-rc4","tag-rc6","tag-rijndael","tag-security-2","tag-skipjack","tag-ssh","tag-symmetric","tag-twofish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}