[Cryptography] On the Impending Crypto Monoculture

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Mar 25 05:58:02 EDT 2016


Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie> writes:

>I really don't see AES-GCM going away while there's h/w support.

There's very little HW support for this in mobile, which is why Google wants
ChaCha20, because it's efficient in software.  And since Google wants it, it's
going to be mandatory in TLS 1.3.

Peter.


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