Please add support for chacha20-poly1305
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Description
Please add support for chacha20-poly1305 to have an alternative to AES-GCM.
Details: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7539
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reading RFC 7539 and comparing the requested ChaCha20-Poly1305 support with the existing AES-GCM API; done means the algorithm is supported as an alternative and its behavior is covered by the project's relevant tests.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api, cryptography
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100