RFC 8103

Using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), February 2017

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Author:
R. Housley
Stream:
IETF
Source:
curdle (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8103

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Abstract

This document describes the conventions for using ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an authenticated encryption algorithm constructed of the ChaCha stream cipher and Poly1305 authenticator.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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