Message 273361 - Python tracker

Message273361

Author	pitrou
Recipients	alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, gregory.p.smith, janssen, pitrou
Date	2016-08-22.11:49:31
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Message-id	<1471866571.85.0.894890473244.issue27768@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I still think it's a slippery slope to include such specialized APIs that most people don't know what to make of. This reminds me of `RAND_egd()`. If ChaCha20-Poly1305 is always /at least/ as secure as AES-GCM (and sometimes more), then we should simply prioritize it in the cipher list, regardless of a potentially poorer performance that probably never has an actual impact on the Python-written application (correct me if I'm wrong here).

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I still think it's a slippery slope to include such specialized APIs that most people don't know what to make of.  This reminds me of `RAND_egd()`.

If ChaCha20-Poly1305 is always /at least/ as secure as AES-GCM (and sometimes more), then we should simply prioritize it in the cipher list, regardless of a potentially poorer performance that probably never has an actual impact on the Python-written application (correct me if I'm wrong here).

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