I'm a fan of RIPEMD-160 with salts, it is my default hashing algorithm that i use in my apps. MD5 sits alongside CRC checksums for me when I think about securi

I'm a fan of RIPEMD-160 with salts, it is my default hashing algorithm that i use in my apps. MD5 sits alongside CRC checksums for me when I think about security. For symmetric encryption, I like AES.