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mpyne on Oct 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to ...

There is at least an RFC out for a TLS stream cipher using Salsa20, if I'm remembering current events correctly. Of course publication of a spec will precede implementation in hardware and software by some years, I would imagine.

harshreality on Oct 14, 2013 [–]

There's one that's expired for salsa20, and one by AGL for chacha20 + poly1305.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-0...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-salsa20-tls-02

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