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RFC 8103
Title: Using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in
the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Author: R. Housley
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2017
Mailbox: [email protected]
Pages: 9
Characters: 18866
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305-06.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8103
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8103
This document describes the conventions for using ChaCha20-Poly1305
Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an authenticated encryption algorithm
constructed of the ChaCha stream cipher and Poly1305 authenticator.
This document is a product of the CURves, Deprecating and a Little more
Encryption Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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