Re: [PATCH 0/2] crypto: arm64/ARM: NEON accelerated ChaCha20

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> ChaCha20 is a stream cipher described in RFC 7539, and is intended to be
> an efficient software implementable 'standby cipher', in case AES cannot
> be used.

That's not quite correct.

The IETF changed the algorithm a bit, and its not compatible with
Bernstein's ChaCha. They probably should have differentiated the name
to avoid this sort of confusion.

You can find Bernstein's specification for ChaCha at
https://cr.yp.to/chacha.html, and the test vectors for Bernstein's
specification at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-strombergson-chacha-test-vectors.

Jeff
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