Cap’n Proto - Hackdot

Re:Cap’n Proto by kixpanganiban on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:07PM (#12471727)

> Hmm, I'm not clear on what you mean by "streaming model" -- I think of "streaming" as the opposite of random access.

Right, sorry, I re-read my comment and confused myself too. Seems like it's bad for me to go on HN without a fresh cup of coffee (it's 10am now here in the Philippines).

Thanks for your swift response, I'll experiment with AES-CTR (since I'm more familiar with it than chacha20). And thanks for pointing out that there are wrappers for Python/Go already, the programming language I use daily and was thinking of building libs for! Again, great work, and I'll stay posted.

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Re:Cap’n Proto by aidenn0 on Sunday September 11, 2016 @01:15AM (#12472095)

Also as a note, both ciphers suggested are stream ciphers, so you will need some way of authenticating. Depending on your needs, you may consider using something like libsodium that takes care of all of that for you:

https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/content/secret-key_...

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