This work investigated some properties of Latin quandles that are applicable in cryptography. Four distinct cores of an Osborn loop (non-diassociative and non-power associative) were introduced and investigated. The necessary and sufficient conditions for these cores to be (i) (left) quandles (ii) involutory quandles (iii) quasi-Latin quandles and (iv) involutory quasi-Latin quandles were established. These conditions were judiciously used to build cipher algorithms for cryptography in some peculiar circumstances.