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Remove pre-standard ChaCha20-Poly1305 ciphers

Category
Security
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Removed (Chrome 58)
Intent stage
None

Summary

In 2013, Chrome 31 deployed new TLS cipher suites based on Prof. Dan Bernstein's ChaCha20 and Poly1305 algorithms. This was later standardized, with small tweaks, at the IETF as RFC 7539 and RFC 7905. We shipped the standardized variant early in 2016 with Chrome 49. We are now removing the pre-standard variants.

Standards & signals

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