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And hopefully not RSA much longer; like RC4, it's completely insecure if you use it in the simple, obvious way you might get from a textbook. ECC is superior in almost every way. Now Diffie-Hellman --- that there is a venerable algorithm.

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True. With exponentially growing computing power, many cryptographic algorithms will be at risk. Everything evolves with time. Commonly used compression algorithms like JPEG or MP3 are starting to being obsolete as well. So what I put in the list are algorithms that put crucial fundaments for computing world.

But anyway, it's a matter of opinion. 10 people could come up with 10 different lists.

Of course. The individual algorithms may change, but algorithm families reflect problems nature herself has given us, and we'll always have to deal with these broad classes of problem.

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