Re: [ANN] lua-chacha

[Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> I just pushed a module called lua-chacha to GitHub [1].
>
> It is a C module that implements the ChaCha stream cipher
> based on D.J. Bernstein's original codebase. It supports
> ChaCha8, ChaCha12 and ChaCha20, as well as the IETF
> ChaCha20 variant.
>
> I want to stress that ChaCha is a stream cipher that is
> not, by itself, a secure way to encrypt data. It is a
> low-level primitive intended to be composed with others
> to form a complete cryptography system.
>
> I have only released that module for Lua 5.3 on LuaRocks
> because it is the only Lua version I have tested it with
> so far.

I have backported it to Lua 5.1, 5,2 and LuaJIT:
https://github.com/catwell/lua-chacha/pull/1

> [1] https://github.com/catwell/lua-chacha
>
> --
> Pierre Chapuis
>
>



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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev