From 396607987af970a407ae0b2397c314386d0c862a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Willi Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:42:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Add ChaCha20/Poly1305 news --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e0cfb7e98..b2191b6cc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC7539 and + draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp + proposal keyword. The new chapoly plugin implements the cipher, optionally + SSE-accelerated on x86/x64 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the + strongSwan libipsec ESP backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink + plugin can configure the cipher for ESP SAs. + + strongswan-5.3.2 ----------------