From 23c7a663fe4dddcd04c42e332d509d9e38b3bf37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 14:12:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS entries for chacha and AEAD.

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 NEWS | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c4a4ae2d..1cea89ca 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -44,10 +44,17 @@ NEWS for the 2.8 release
 
 	* 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
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