IIRC, there's a Smalltalk AES implementation somewhere (I don't know if it's efficient though). MD5 and SHA1/SHA2 are there and rapid enough, but storing password hashes using these algorithms is a very bad practice. You should use key derivation functions like scrypt and bcrypt. There's no implementation of these in Smalltalk, so you should wrap their libs in a plugin. On 9/4/11, Larry White <ljw1001@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'd seen some mail in the archives saying that the old, Smalltalk native encryption libraries were abandoned and new libraries should wrap some standard implementation.

I'm looking at the moment for symmetric algorithms and an md5 hash for storing passwords. Does anybody know the status of these things?

Thanks much.

Larry