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RFC 7905
Title: ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Author: A. Langley,
W. Chang,
N. Mavrogiannopoulos,
J. Strombergson,
S. Josefsson
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: June 2016
Mailbox: agl@google.com,
wtc@google.com,
nmav@redhat.com,
joachim@secworks.se,
simon@josefsson.org
Pages: 8
Characters: 15575
Updates: RFC 5246, RFC 6347
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-04.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7905
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7905
This document describes the use of the ChaCha stream cipher and
Poly1305 authenticator in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols.
This document updates RFCs 5246 and 6347.
This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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