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		rdpintqogeogsaa on June 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A few thoughts on Fuchsia security > It's backed by D.J. Bernstein's excellent Salsa20 with seeding from hardware I wonder why they stuck with Salsa20 instead of ChaCha20. The latter has got better performance characteristics and is by now more popular, having found its way e.g. into TLSv1.3.

vbezhenar on June 13, 2021 | [–]

According to the documentation they're actually using ChaCha20: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/cprng

hortense on June 13, 2021 | | [–]

That's accurate:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/8b2bb8a5d1a0/zirc...

coolreader18 on June 13, 2021 | [–]

Oh, it's updated in the article now.

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