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Symmetric key as proof of ownership of a session?
I have a question, or rather multiple questions that all relate to the same topic.
I am building an application with both a frontend (FE) and a backend (BE). All communication between FE and BE is ...
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How to increase Poly1305 performance?
I was analysing the Chacha20 algorithm and the Poly1305 MAC generation from RFC 7539.
It seems that the Chacha20 is quite faster compared to AES on CPUs without hardware support like AES-NI.
But ...
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Are Authenticated Encryption ciphersuites supported in legacy TLS versions older than TLS 1.2?
I have read in a paper that Authenticated Encryption (by this I mean those that support GCM mode or ChaCha20 ciphers) are not supported in versions older than TLS 1.2?
I could not confirm this as ...
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What's the appeal of using ChaCha20 instead of AES?
I read about ChaCha20 being used in TLS by Google, SSH, and towards standardization in general.
What's the appeal of using something other than AES, what with AES receiving dedicated CPU instructions ...
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