The IESG has received a request from the CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption WG (curdle) to consider the following document: - 'Using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)' <draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305-04.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-12-16. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes the conventions for using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an authenticated encryption algorithm constructed of the ChaCha stream cipher and Poly1305 authenticator. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc7539: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols (Informational - Independent Submission Editor stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.
