chachalarue

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Ask HN: LibreSSL symmetric encryption using ChaCha20 (openssl -enc)

Seems you can use command line option "openssl -enc -cipher chacha" with LibreSSL for file encryption however the documentation doesn't mention this as a supported cipher. Is it insanity to use a stream cipher for data at rest or should I stick to what the manpage for Libre/OpenSSL recommends which is "a strong block cipher in CBC mode such as bf or des3".

4chachalarue11y ago2

Recent submissions

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Ask HN: LibreSSL symmetric encryption using ChaCha20 (openssl -enc)

Seems you can use command line option "openssl -enc -cipher chacha" with LibreSSL for file encryption however the documentation doesn't mention this as a supported cipher. Is it insanity to use a stream cipher for data at rest or should I stick to what the manpage for Libre/OpenSSL recommends which is "a strong block cipher in CBC mode such as bf or des3".

4chachalarue11y ago2