NEWS entries for chacha and AEAD.

23c7a663 · Niels Möller · aa546471 · 23c7a663
Commit 23c7a663 authored Mar 04, 2014 by Niels Möller
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 	* Support for poly1305-aes MAC.

-	* Support for the Chacha stream cipher.
+	* Experimental support for the Chacha stream cipher and the
+          chacha-poly1305 AEAD mode. Specifications are still in
+          flux, and future releases may do incompatible changes to
+          track standardization. Currently uses 256-bit key and 64-bit
+          nonce.

 	* Support for EAX mode.

+	* New interfaces for mechanisms providing authenticated
+	  encryption with associated data (AEAD).
+	
 	Optimizations:

 	* New x86_64 assembly for GCM and MD5. Modest speedups on the