ITSO Approved Cryptographic Algorithms

Introduction

Virginia Tech departments conducting federally funded research must use NIST-approved cryptographic algorithms. However, the IT Security Office has approved other well-regarded cryptographic algorithms for other use cases. If you are not protecting data that is required to use NIST-approved algorithms, then you may also use these ITSO-approved algorithms.

ITSO-Approved Cryptographic Algorithms

If not conducting federally funded research and do not wish to use NIST-approved cryptographic algorithms, use one of the following ITSO-approved cryptographic algorithms:

• Argon2
• bcrypt
• BLAKE
• ChaCha20
• Curve25519
• Ed25519
• Poly1305
• scrypt
• X25519

Other

If you have questions, please contact the Virginia Tech IT Security Office at itso@vt.edu for a consultation.