[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#785781: Bug#785781: Add chacha20-poly1305 support

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:46:55PM +0800, Wang Jian wrote:
> Package: src:openssl
> Version: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16
> Severity: normal
> 
> chacha20-poly1305 has stronger security (256bits) and better
> performance for mobile
> devices, and has been proven by various big companies, and RFC'ed (RFC7539)

That is just an RFC about chacha20-poly1305, not about how to use
it in TLS.  The draft for using it in TLS is
draft-mavrogiannopoulos-chacha-tls.  There was just a call for an
early code point assignment for the ciphers today on the IETF TLS
list.


Kurt