chacha20+poly1305 authenticated encryption

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "DM" == Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> writes:

DM> There is plenty of room for improvement

Of course.

DM> both the Poly1305 and ChaCha20 implementations in the patch
DM> are plain C.

I was impressed with the current speed for sysems which lack aesni.
Those are still the most significant for me.

DM> There are significantly faster versions available in
DM> libnacl/libsodium.

Experimenting with the code in libsodium was my next goal.

DM> Once this code lands in OpenSSH, I'll probably add some way
DM> to use these external libraries in portable OpenSSH.

+1.

On each box where I tested, make tests, once it completed, returned
all tests passed.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6