A superior stream encryption cipher that is faster and a lot easier to implement than AES-GCM. It also has a lot less attack surface than AES-GCM due to less potential side channel attacks.
Person 1: We should encrypt this traffic with AES-GCM.
Person 2: FUCK AES, let's encrypt it with XChaCha20Poly1305.
Person 2: FUCK AES, let's encrypt it with XChaCha20Poly1305.
by grilledpotatoes January 14, 2022