OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein

First time accepted submitter ConstantineM writes "Inspired by a recent Google initiative to adopt ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for TLS, OpenSSH developer Damien Miller has added a similar protocol to ssh, chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, which is based on D. J. Bernstein algorithms that are specifically optimised to provide the highest security at the lowest computational cost, and not require any special hardware at doing so. Some further details are in his blog, and at undeadly. The source code of the protocol is remarkably simple — less than 100 lines of code!"

Comments

Thank you Damien

[flyingfsck]

This is great news.

Re:100 lines is meaningless

[lgw]

And being DJB, surely some of that 300 lines is comments insulting all his fellow cryptographers, the users, and generally complaining that the world is full of idiots?