The document summarizes several modern symmetric ciphers: Triple-DES was adopted as a replacement for DES to increase its key size against brute force attacks. Blowfish is a block cipher designed to have a simple structure and be fast on 32-bit CPUs. RC5 is a family of ciphers that can vary key size, data size, and number of rounds. RC4 is a proprietary stream cipher owned by RSA that is widely used in applications like SSL and WEP. It shuffles an internal state array using the key to generate a pseudorandom stream.