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RFC 7634
Title: ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Their Use
in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol
(IKE) and IPsec
Author: Y. Nir
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: August 2015
Mailbox: ynir.ietf@gmail.com
Pages: 13
Characters: 27513
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-12.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7634
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7634
This document describes the use of the ChaCha20 stream cipher along
with the Poly1305 authenticator, combined into an AEAD algorithm for
the Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (IKEv2) and for IPsec.
This document is a product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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