What is a class that does encryption, decryption, hashing called?

Question

I have a class that encrypts, decrypts, hashes and signs. In the future it may implement something else too, but my question is that what would that class be called. Currently I call it Encrypter, but it really does things that's not about encrypting. I have thought about the term Crypto, but I am not sure if that's what people usually use/think.

Answer 1

It sounds like you might want to break up your single class into multiple classes, one for each major purpose:

• encrypting
• decrypting
• hashing
• signing
• signature verification

Then you can collect these classes into a library or module (terminology depends on what language you're using).