Editing List of algorithms (section)

===Cryptography===
{{further|Cryptography|Topics in cryptography}}

* [[Asymmetric key algorithm|Asymmetric (public key) encryption]]:
** [[ElGamal encryption|ElGamal]]
** [[Elliptic curve cryptography]]
** [[Matei Array Encreption 1|MAE1]]
** [[NTRUEncrypt]]
** [[RSA (cryptosystem)|RSA]]
* [[Digital signature]]s (asymmetric authentication):
** [[Digital Signature Algorithm|DSA]], and its variants:
*** [[ECDSA]] and Deterministic ECDSA
*** [[EdDSA]] (Ed25519)
** [[RSA (cryptosystem)|RSA]]
* [[Cryptographic hash function]]s (see also the section on message authentication codes):
** [[BLAKE (hash function)|BLAKE]]
** [[MD5]] – Note that there is now a method of generating collisions for MD5
** [[RIPEMD-160]]
** [[SHA-1]] – Note that there is now a method of generating collisions for SHA-1
** [[SHA-2]] (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512)
** [[SHA-3]] (SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, SHAKE128, SHAKE256)
** [[Tiger (hash function)|Tiger]] (TTH), usually used in [[Hash tree (persistent data structure)|Tiger tree hashes]]
** [[WHIRLPOOL]]
* [[Cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator]]s
** [[Blum Blum Shub]] – based on the hardness of [[integer factorization|factorization]]
** [[Fortuna (PRNG)|Fortuna]], intended as an improvement on [[Yarrow algorithm]]
** [[Linear-feedback shift register]] (note: many LFSR-based algorithms are weak or have been broken)
** [[Yarrow algorithm]]
* [[Key exchange]]
** [[Diffie–Hellman key exchange]]
** [[Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman]] (ECDH)
* [[Key derivation function]]s, often used for [[password hashing]] and [[key stretching]]
** [[bcrypt]]
** [[PBKDF2]]
** [[scrypt]]
** [[Argon2]]
* [[Message authentication code]]s (symmetric authentication algorithms, which take a key as a parameter):
** [[keyed-hash message authentication code|HMAC]]: keyed-hash message authentication
** [[Poly1305]]
** [[SipHash]]
* [[Secret sharing]], secret splitting, key splitting, M of N algorithms
** Blakey's scheme
** [[Shamir's secret sharing]]
* [[Symmetric key algorithm|Symmetric (secret key) encryption]]:
** [[Advanced Encryption Standard]] (AES), winner of [[NIST]] competition, also known as [[Rijndael]]
** [[Blowfish (cipher)|Blowfish]]
** [[Twofish]]
** [[Threefish]]
** [[Data Encryption Standard]] (DES), sometimes DE Algorithm, winner of NBS selection competition, replaced by AES for most purposes
** [[International Data Encryption Algorithm|IDEA]]
** [[RC4 (cipher)]]
** [[Tiny Encryption Algorithm]] (TEA)
** [[Salsa20]], and its updated variant [[Salsa20#ChaCha variant|ChaCha20]]
* [[Post-quantum cryptography]]
* [[Proof-of-work system|Proof-of-work algorithms]]