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RFC 7905: ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)

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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.

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Document ID
RFC7905
Published
June 2016
Authors
A. Langley; W. Chang; N. Mavrogiannopoulos; J. Strombergson; S. Josefsson
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
8
Also known as
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Updates:
RFC 5246, RFC 6347
Updated by:
RFC 10015

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