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loup-vaillant on Jan 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The design of Chacha20

Err, the key can be 256-bits. This is the preferred key size these days.

orlp on Jan 10, 2017 [–]

Oops, that should indeed be 256 bits (8 * 32 = 256). The rest of the comment stands though.

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