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> It's backed by D.J. Bernstein's excellent Salsa20 with seeding from hardware I wonder why they stuck with Salsa20 instead of ChaCha20. The latter has got bet

> It's backed by D.J. Bernstein's excellent Salsa20 with seeding from hardware I wonder why they stuck with Salsa20 instead of ChaCha20. The latter has got better performance characteristics and is by now more popular, having found its way e.g. into TLSv1.3.

vbezhenar 5y ago
According to the documentation they're actually using ChaCha20: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/cprng https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/cprng
- hortense 5y ago
  That's accurate: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/8b2bb8a5d1a0/zircon/kernel/lib/crypto/prng.cc#110 https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/8b2bb8a5d1a0/zirc...
coolreader18 5y ago
Oh, it's updated in the article now.