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[feature] Support Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption #66

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desimone opened this issue Sep 10, 2019 · 1 comment
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desimone commented Sep 10, 2019

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The current algorithms available to securecookie are susceptible to nonce-reuse issues under certain conditions. I know this is very much on the radar 1,2 of the maintainers, but the effort seems tied to a v2 which I'm not sure of the status of.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like for sessions to use a non misuse-resistant algorithm. Options include:

XChaCha20-Poly1305 seems like the best current option. It currently exists in /x/crypto, implements the aead interface, is relatively fast (no AES-NI 😭 ), and is ubiquitous.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Reinvent the wheel and reimplement/fork my own sessions package. Which, you know. Meh.

Of course, I'd be happy to help but didn't want to step on toes if this is part of a larger effort.

@desimone desimone added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 10, 2019
@elithrar elithrar self-assigned this Sep 11, 2019
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