Re: Using Salsa20 in a new protocol spec

On Aug 14, 12:49 pm, Tom St Denis <t...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 14, 1:42 pm, Adam Ierymenko <adam.ieryme...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am presently writing a new protocol spec and reference
implementation. Should I consider using Salsa20?

http://cr.yp.to/snuffle.html

http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/salsa20pf.html

It is very fast, simple, easy to implement, portable, and seems to
have gotten good press. However, it is not finalized yet. Anyone
already using it? Is such an algorithm likely to get revised?

What's wrong with AES-CTR for a stream cipher?

Tom

Salsa20 kicks ***. That's what.

AES is much more standardized, of course. So it may be a better
choice. Like they said in Practical Cryptography, if you use AES and
someone breaks it, no one can blame you for using the government
standard.
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