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conradludgate
on July 6, 2023
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I want XAES-256-GCM/11
I've unfortunately seen many situations where only NIST approved constructions are allowed. ChaCha is not an approved NIST algorithm but AES-256-GCM is
forty
on July 6, 2023
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I totally get that, but XAES-256-GCM/11 is in an even worse situation than XChachaPoly since none are NIST but XChachaPoly has at least a RFC ^^
EDIT: I'm wrong, ChachaPoly has an rfc, but not the X variant
commandersaki
on July 6, 2023
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XChaCha20Poly1305 does have an RFC authored by Scott Arciszewski:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-arciszewski-xcha...
forty
on July 7, 2023
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Yes but it has been expired for a while
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