ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security
RFC 7905, “ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security”, is a Proposed Standard document published in June 2016 by A. Langley, W. Chang, N. Mavrogiannopoulos, J. Strombergson, S. Josefsson. It updates RFC 5246, RFC 6347. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes the use of the ChaCha stream cipher and Poly1305 authenticator in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols.
This document updates RFCs 5246 and 6347.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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