Subject: [TLS] Salsa20 stream cipher in TLS
From: Simon Josefsson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:51:49 +0100
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All,

FYI, we have published -00 of a draft that describes how the Salsa20
stream cipher can be added to TLS and DTLS, see:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-salsa20-tls

While we are not asking for WG adoption of this draft now, we are at a
point where we would like to invite external review and solicit
feedback.  Some elements of the draft is still in flux.  For example,
initial performance benchmarks suggests HMAC-SHA256 was a poor choice
for the MAC so we are looking into UMAC and HMAC-SHA1 as alternatives.
Still, all comments are appreciated.

/Simon