Guidelines on unsafe cryptographic algorithms

Experts in the security community have indicted many commonly used cryptographic algorithms as insecure. Bases for these claims of insecurity often include advances in cryptographic research that have demonstrated previously unknown weakness in algorithms and advances in the computational power of readily available hardware.

In the face of an ongoing stream of advice from an active security community, the struggle for software developers has long been to differentiate problems that introduce real risk to their systems from hypothetical research focused on attacks that won?t be feasible in the mainstream for years.