Subject: RFC 7634 on ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Their Use in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) and IPsec

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:34:49 -0700 (PDT)

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        RFC 7634

        Title:      ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Their Use 
                    in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol 
                    (IKE) and IPsec 
        Author:     Y. Nir
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2015
        Mailbox:    [email-masked]
        Pages:      13
        Characters: 27513
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-12.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7634

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7634

This document describes the use of the ChaCha20 stream cipher along
with the Poly1305 authenticator, combined into an AEAD algorithm for
the Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (IKEv2) and for IPsec.

This document is a product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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