CHACHA20_POLY1305 cipher suites for TLS

Security

Chrome 31 deployed a new TLS cipher suite based on Prof. Dan Bernstein's ChaCha20 and Poly1305 algorithms. They run three times faster than AES-GCM on devices that don't have AES hardware acceleration, including most Android phones. These have now made their way through the standardization process. We'll be deploying the standardized variant in Chrome 49.

Documentation

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink


Enabled by default in:

  • Chrome for desktop release 49
  • Chrome for Android release 49
  • Android WebView release 49
  • Opera release 36
  • Opera for Android release 36

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

  • In development
  • No public signals
  • No public signals
  • No signals

Owners

Last updated on 2017-06-14