ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-03
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Network Working Group A. Langley
Internet-Draft W. Chang
Updates: 5246, 6347 (if approved) Google Inc
Intended status: Standards Track N. Mavrogiannopoulos
Expires: June 2, 2016 Red Hat
J. Strombergson
Secworks Sweden AB
S. Josefsson
SJD AB
November 30, 2015
ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-03
Abstract
This document describes the use of the ChaCha stream cipher and
Poly1305 authenticator in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. ChaCha20 Cipher Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
This document describes the use of the ChaCha stream cipher and
Poly1305 authenticator in version 1.2 or later of the the Transport
Layer Security (TLS) [RFC5246] protocol, as well as version 1.2 or
later of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol
[RFC6347].
ChaCha [CHACHA] is a stream cipher developed by D. J. Bernstein in
2008. It is a refinement of Salsa20, which is one of the selected
ciphers in the eSTREAM portfolio [ESTREAM], and was used as the core
of the SHA-3 finalist, BLAKE.
The variant of ChaCha used in this document has 20 rounds, a 96-bit
nonce and a 256-bit key, and will be referred to as ChaCha20. This
is the conservative variant (with respect to security) of the ChaCha
family and is described in [RFC7539].
Poly1305 [POLY1305] is a Wegman-Carter, one-time authenticator
designed by D. J. Bernstein. Poly1305 takes a 256-bit, one-time
key and a message, and produces a 16-byte tag that authenticates the
message such that an attacker has a negligible chance of producing a
valid tag for an inauthentic message. It is also described in
[RFC7539].
ChaCha and Poly1305 have both been designed for high performance in
software implementations. They typically admit a compact
implementation that uses few resources and inexpensive operations,
which makes them suitable on a wide range of architectures. They
have also been designed to minimize leakage of information through
side channels.
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Recent attacks [CBC-ATTACK] have indicated problems with the CBC-mode
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