Since I'm running postfix with LibreSSL, some clients encrypt the connection using ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305. Now I'm used to seeing headers like "using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)" . But these ChaCha20 headers look like "using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/0 bits)". I'm wondering what the 0 part in 256/0 bits mean. I've read it's "the number of bits actually used" vs. "the number of bits the algorithm is based on", but this sounds confusing to me. Can someone maybe clarify?

Thanks,

Tim

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