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
- chacha20 cipher_algbits is 0 Tim Kuijsten
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