[Ach] NIST review of cryptographic standards

[Thomas Schreck]

Hi Maarten,

so we cannot really recommend that ciphers but good to see that they are
working on improving that.

Thomas

On 06/11/13 23:45, Maarten Van Horenbeeck wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> For ChaCha20, there's basic support already in Mozilla:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917571
> 
> Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Elie Bursztein and others are also driving
> development in other client libraries like NSS and OpenSSL:
> https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/10/07/chacha20.html
> 
> There's support for Rabbit in CyaSSL, but I don't see a lot of practical
> support for it emerging outside of that library.
> 
> Cheers,
> Maarten
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Thomas Schreck <tom at schreck-thomas.de>wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Maarten,
>>>
>>> E.g. it recommends Rabbit as a stream cipher, instead of Salsa20, which
>> is
>>> pretty popular (e.g.
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-salsa20-tls-02). Both were
>> part
>>> of the eSTREAM portfolio recommendation for software implementations.
>>
>> are there any implementations of that ciphers despite the reference ones?
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Thomas Schreck <tom at schreck-thomas.de
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> BSI is also providing a list of recommended key lengths
>>>>
>>>>
>> https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Publikationen/TechnischeRichtlinien/tr02102/index_htm.html
>>>>
>>>> German only ...
>>>>
>>>> Am 04.11.2013 14:15, schrieb L. Aaron Kaplan:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 4, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi *,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This might be of interest:
>>>> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/crypto-review/index.html
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, I updated the section methods.tex accordingly.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ git pull
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> a.
>>>>>
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