Hi,
On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 06:36:40PM +, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
> Why OpenVPN does not support ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption?
What makes you think it doesn't?
gert
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On 08.02.24 20:07, Peter Davis wrote:
Why OpenVPN articles uses AES-256-GCM? Is it better?
It is very probably "better" in the sense of remaining compatible with
various OpenVPN and OpenSSL versions; Ctrl-F the online OpenVPN
reference manuals for more info.
"Better" as in more resistant to
>On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 10:21 PM, Jochen Bern
> wrote:
> On 08.02.24 19:36, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
>
> > Why OpenVPN does not support ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption?
>
>
> You sure?
>
> > $ openvpn --show-ciphers | grep -i cha
> > CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256 bit key, stream
On 08.02.24 19:36, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
Why OpenVPN does not support ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption?
You sure?
$ openvpn --show-ciphers | grep -i cha
CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256 bit key, stream cipher, TLS client/server mode only)
(FWIW, OpenVPN 2.6.8 and, *more* relevant to the p
Hi,
According to Wikipedia:
The main external difference with ChaCha20 is its 64 byte (512 bit) block size,
in comparison to 16 bytes (128 bit) with both AES-128 and AES-256. The larger
block size enables higher performance on modern CPUs and allows for larger
streams before the 32 bit counter o
