How to know the current status of cryptographic algorithms?

Question

Burglary protection

From time to time in different places (like Habr or Hacker) you come across descriptions of discovered problems and successful hacks of different algorithms, remember all this by the time you need to decide which algorithms to use in your software is unrealistic, and this information will already become outdated. Is there a site where you can find out the current status of cryptographic algorithms - which ones are considered strong at the moment, what known weaknesses they have (quick hacking, collisions, etc.), at what speed the best brute-forcers on video cards, rainbow tables work on them now, etc.?

Answer 1

Start with the English Wikipedia (where information is updated fairly quickly) and follow the links.

Answer 2

Always use the latest versions of time-tested protocols, crypto primitives and libraries and everything will be in order. Believe me, many exploits that have appeared recently, for example, sensational news about ASP.NET and SSL hacks, and so many of these exploits are based on vulnerabilities known for a very long time, and if the latest version of SSL was used everywhere now, then there would be no problems arose. The most important thing is not to reinvent the wheel and, in an attempt to protect yourself, do not start using some little-known protocols and libraries, in which case you will have security problems with a 100% guarantee.

Answer 3

Make a "startup", as you can say now, displaying the status of cryptographic algorithms on the main page.