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chacha20poly1305

Pure Rust implementation of the ChaCha20Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data Cipher (RFC 8439) with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration. Also contains implementations of the XChaCha20Poly1305 extended nonce variant of ChaCha20Poly1305, and the reduced-round ChaCha8Poly1305 and ChaCha12Poly1305 lightweight variants.

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https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs ↗

Sourced from crates.io · Updated August 13, 2026

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What is chacha20poly1305?

Pure Rust implementation of the ChaCha20Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data Cipher (RFC 8439) with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration. Also contains implementations of the XChaCha20Poly1305 extended nonce variant of ChaCha20Poly1305, and the reduced-round ChaCha8Poly1305 and ChaCha12Poly1305 lightweight variants.

Is chacha20poly1305 safe to use?

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