[Cryptography] recommending ChaCha20 instead of RC4 (RC4 again)

Miroslav Kratochvil exa.exa at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 16:22:45 EDT 2014


> Interesting to note that these are all designed by Daniel J.
> Bernstein, except for HKDF and for BLAKE2, which re-uses the ChaCha
> function as its core. However, I didn't choose these ones out of sheer
> .....

Count in DJB's excellent work on McEliece (wild Goppa codes) and actually
the whole PQCrypto project ( http://pqcrypto.org/ ) that also gives even
more efficient and secure crypto primitives than those you listed.

It's cool. :]

-mk
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