Re: [TLS] ChaCha20 + Poly1305 in TLS

Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Wed, 11 September 2013 12:47 UTC

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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:47:41 +0100
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From: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] ChaCha20 + Poly1305 in TLS
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On 11 September 2013 13:30, Dr Stephen Henson
<lists@drh-consultancy.co.uk>wrote:

> On 10/09/2013 16:22, Adam Langley wrote:
> > I've just posted a draft defining ChaCha20+Poly1305 cipher suites for
> > TLS: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305/
> >
>
> Which versions of TLS is this aimed at, TLS 1.2 (and later) only or earlier
> versions too?
>

Good point, should be explicit about that - we're aiming at all versions.


>
> Would it make sense to include some DHE ciphersuites as well as the ECDH
> ones
> for implementations which (for whatever reason) do not support or disable
> ECDH?
>
> Steve.
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