[OTR-dev] ChaCha based ciphers

[Carsten Mattner]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:43:51PM +0100, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> are there any plans to make use of Dan's ChaCha ciphers in a future version?
>
> There are not at this time.  What problem with AES would you be trying
> to fix with this change?

* faster
* no side channel attack vector in the cipher itself
* <subjective>personal preference/bias toward Dan's team and distrusting
  election process for AES seeing how ChaCha was in the race</subjective>