I would like to see more native support for compression and encryption/hash algorithms.
When it comes to compression and encryption. We are very much the poor relations to other languages that have a plethora of source and examples for SHA1, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, HMAC, Ryjindel, AES (encryption) and LZO, LZMA, LZW, GZip, JPEG2000 (compression) to name but a few.
Apart from "Zip" (which can only be used on files) and "twofish" (which is hardly an industry standard because of security concerns) we have very little choice but to use DLLs and SOs meaning our applications violate one of the biggest reasons for using LabView........cross-platform. We have very little in our tool-kit to make efficient and secure network applications for example. Especially if we are required to interface to existing systems that ave used these technologies for many years.
We cannot even write applications to access Twitter any more!
With the introduction of "Stream" prototypes in the new LV2010, it is essential to have these tools in our palettes.
Crypto-Algorthim implementation is not something that NI is likely to ever create a library for. There are many public algorithms available for developers to implement. There is at least one library available, written in LabVIEW, mentioned in this thread.
I'm closing this thread as "Declined".