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. --- 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 -- GitLab