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I've unfortunately seen many situations where only NIST approved constructions are allowed. ChaCha is not an approved NIST algorithm but AES-256-GCM is
by conradludgate 3y ago
I've unfortunately seen many situations where only NIST approved constructions are allowed. ChaCha is not an approved NIST algorithm but AES-256-GCM is
- forty 3y agoI totally get that, but XAES-256-GCM/11 is in an even worse situation than XChachaPoly since none are NIST but XChachaPoly has at least a RFC ^^ EDIT: I'm wrong, ChachaPoly has an rfc, but not the X variant
- commandersaki 3y agoXChaCha20Poly1305 does have an RFC authored by Scott Arciszewski: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-arciszewski-xchacha-03 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-arciszewski-xcha...
- forty 3y agoYes but it has been expired for a while