[Cryptech Core] New version of chacha
Fredrik Thulin
fredrik at thulin.net
Fri Sep 23 14:27:45 UTC 2016
On tisdag 20 september 2016 kl. 13:59:13 CEST Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> As part of a side project to implement a complete core for the
> chacha20-poly1305 aead cipher according to RFC 7539 I have done some
> quite substantial cleanup and rework of the chacha core. The core uses
> less logic resources, about half the number of registers and can be
> clocked 10% faster. There are no API changes and the core (naturally)
> generates the same results for the given test vectors in the testbenches.
>
> I'm thinking of merging the updates core into cryptech. Sounds ok?
No objections from me. Maybe you would get more input from the tech-list.
/Fredrik
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