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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305 b/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305 index 9cf73a926bb..4857d38533d 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305 +++ b/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305 @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Detailed Construction The chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com cipher requires 512 bits of key material as output from the SSH key exchange. This forms two 256 bit keys (K_1 and K_2), used by two separate instances of chacha20. +The first 256 bits consitute K_2 and the second 256 bits become +K_1. The instance keyed by K_1 is a stream cipher that is used only to encrypt the 4 byte packet length field. The second instance, @@ -101,5 +103,5 @@ References [3] "ChaCha20 and Poly1305 based Cipher Suites for TLS", Adam Langley http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-03 -$OpenBSD: PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305,v 1.2 2013/12/02 02:50:27 djm Exp $ +$OpenBSD: PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305,v 1.3 2016/05/03 13:10:24 djm Exp $ |