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Re: [TLS] ChaCha20 + Poly1305 in TLS

Dr Stephen Henson <lists@drh-consultancy.co.uk> Wed, 11 September 2013 12:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] ChaCha20 + Poly1305 in TLS
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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?

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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