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authorReyk Floeter <reyk@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-02 15:40:54 +0000
committerReyk Floeter <reyk@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-02 15:40:54 +0000
commitecdd94580f53a16a917b735bfd3f19323cafaeea (patch)
treec242ea64bbce9269783f3eba8b902c2f981d6cc8 /lib/libcrypto/man
parent750e29e0f675c40a0342d2c01f64a9274b993680 (diff)
Add EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf() - The informational RFC 7539,
"ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols", introduced a modified AEAD construction that is incompatible with the common style that has been already used in TLS with EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(). The IETF version also adds a constant (salt) that is prepended to the nonce. OK mikeb@ jsing@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypto/man')
-rw-r--r--lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.333
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.3
index a2b4efea541..e6abc282d30 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.3,v 1.2 2015/10/14 09:11:25 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: EVP_AEAD_CTX_init.3,v 1.3 2015/11/02 15:40:53 reyk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2014, Google Inc.
.\" Parts of the text were written by Adam Langley and David Benjamin.
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 14 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2015 $
.Dt EVP_AEAD_CTX_INIT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
.Nm EVP_AEAD_nonce_length ,
.Nm EVP_aead_aes_128_gcm ,
.Nm EVP_aead_aes_256_gcm ,
-.Nm EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305
+.Nm EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305 ,
+.Nm EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf
.Nd authenticated encryption with additional data
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In openssl/evp.h
@@ -101,6 +102,10 @@
.Fo EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305
.Fa void
.Fc
+.Ft const EVP_AEAD *
+.Fo EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf
+.Fa void
+.Fc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data) couples
confidentiality and integrity in a single primitive.
@@ -219,6 +224,11 @@ AES-128 in Galois Counter Mode.
AES-256 in Galois Counter Mode.
.It Fn EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305
ChaCha20 with a Poly1305 authenticator.
+.It Fn EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf
+ChaCha20 with a Poly1305 authenticator for IETF Protocols.
+The IETF standardised variant of the AEAD is incompatible with the
+original version.
+It uses a constant salt that is prepended to the nonce.
.El
.Pp
Where possible the
@@ -270,6 +280,23 @@ EVP_AEAD_CTX_cleanup(&ctx);
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr evp 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+.Rs
+.%A A. Langley
+.%A W. Chang
+.%D November 2013
+.%R draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-04
+.%T ChaCha20 and Poly1305 based Cipher Suites for TLS
+.Re
+.Pp
+.Rs
+.%A Y. Nir
+.%A A. Langley
+.%D May 2015
+.%R RFC 7539
+.%T ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols
+.Re
+.Pp
.Sh HISTORY
AEAD is based on the implementation by
.An Adam Langley