On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Does anyone else know of use or interest in 128-bit chacha keys? It
>> would definitely make things a bit simpler if we can omit support for
>> 128-bit keys. (And if we skip it now, we could of course reintroduce it
>> later if it turns out to be needed).
> For now, I've deleted the support for 128-bit chacha keys. And replaced
> the "chacha256_" prefixes by "chacha_".
> Not sure what to do about 96-bit nonces. I think I'll leave that for
> now, and maybe introduce a chacha_set_xnonce later in case both
> nonce-sizes needs to be supported.

It has not been approved yet, but the latest TLS proposal for chacha
is with 96-bit nonces and there is no plan to change. So at least for
gnutls only the 96-bit nonce version is relevant.

regards,
Nikos
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