RFC 8103 on Using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)

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        RFC 8103

        Title:      Using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in 
                    the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) 
        Author:     R. Housley
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       February 2017
        Mailbox:    housley@vigilsec.com
        Pages:      9
        Characters: 18866
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305-06.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8103

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC8103

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.

This document is a product of the CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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