Re: [IPsec] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-nir-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-00.txt

2014-01-21 Thread Yaron Sheffer
Hi Yoav, Thank you for submitting this draft. I am all in favor of having a credible "standby algorithm", and I'm hearing that ChaCha20 is a worthy candidate. What worries me in the current instance is that the definition of the algorithm is fluffy. This could be old-fashioned of me, but I t

[IPsec] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-nir-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-00.txt

2014-01-21 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi, Continuing the conversation about "spare algorithms" in case cryptanalytical results are found against AES, I've submitted this document, modeled roughly around AGL's document for TLS with the same algorithms. Reviews and comments would be greatly appreciated, as well as anyone checking my