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[TLS] adopting ChaCha20 as a WG item was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01.txt

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> Thu, 02 October 2014 12:33 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] adopting ChaCha20 as a WG item was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01.txt
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On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 12:40 +0100, Alyssa Rowan wrote:

> Let's go through possible justifications for why I think that, and
> alternatives:
> [...]
> • High performance? AES-GCM (in the presence of hardware support) or
> ChaCha20-Poly1305. Both faster than RC4 unless you're packing an 8-bit,
> and quite reasonable even if you are.

And that reminds me that Chacha20 does not exist yet. Would it be
reasonable for the WG to adopt the current draft [0] given that Yoav's
draft has been adopted by CFRG?

regards,
Nikos

[0]. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mavrogiannopoulos-chacha-tls-02
[1]. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305-01

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