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Feature #2946

Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 via OpenSSL

Added by Glen Huang about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Tobias Brunner
Category:
libstrongswan
Target version:
5.8.0
Start date:
Due date:
Estimated time:
Resolution:
Fixed

Description

From the cipher suites doc it seems curve25519 support is only provided with the curve25519 plugin. But from the source code it seems openssl can also provide support if a recent enough version is used. Is the doc not up-to-date in this case?

Another question is that openssl provides ChaCha20-Poly1305 support since version 1.1.0. And it seems strongswan never makes use of that. Is there any plan to be able to leverage openssl's ChaCha20 implementation?

Associated revisions

Revision 34766542
Added by Tobias Brunner about 3 years ago

Merge branch 'openssl-chapoly'

Adds support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 via OpenSSL.

Fixes #2946.

History

#1 Updated by Tobias Brunner about 3 years ago

  • Category set to libstrongswan
  • Status changed from New to Feedback

Is the doc not up-to-date in this case?

Yep (see 5.7.2).

Another question is that openssl provides ChaCha20-Poly1305 support since version 1.1.0. And it seems strongswan never makes use of that. Is there any plan to be able to leverage openssl's ChaCha20 implementation?

No, currently not.

#2 Updated by Tobias Brunner about 3 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Issue to Feature
  • Subject changed from Openssl cipher support to Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 via OpenSSL
  • Target version set to 5.8.0
  • Affected version deleted (5.7.2)

Another question is that openssl provides ChaCha20-Poly1305 support since version 1.1.0. And it seems strongswan never makes use of that. Is there any plan to be able to leverage openssl's ChaCha20 implementation?

No, currently not.

I quickly put together a patch, see the 2946-openssl-chapoly branch.

#3 Updated by Glen Huang about 3 years ago

Tobias Brunner wrote:

Another question is that openssl provides ChaCha20-Poly1305 support since version 1.1.0. And it seems strongswan never makes use of that. Is there any plan to be able to leverage openssl's ChaCha20 implementation?

No, currently not.

I quickly put together a patch, see the 2946-openssl-chapoly branch.

Great stuff. Looking forward to it being merged.

#4 Updated by Tobias Brunner about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed
  • Assignee set to Tobias Brunner
  • Resolution set to Fixed

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