chacha20
crates.io v0.10.14,068,120 weekly downloads · 5 Dependencies
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The ChaCha20 stream cipher (RFC 8439) implemented in pure Rust using traits from the RustCrypto cipher crate, with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration (AVX2, SSE2). Additionally provides the ChaCha8, ChaCha12, XChaCha20, XChaCha12 and XChaCha8 stream ciphers, and also optional…
cargo add chacha20
- Ecosystemcrates.io
- Version0.10.1
- Weekly downloads4,068,120
- License—
- Dependencies5
- Last release2026-06-24
- First published2016-10-06
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The ChaCha20 stream cipher (RFC 8439) implemented in pure Rust using traits from the RustCrypto cipher crate, with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration (AVX2, SSE2). Additionally provides the ChaCha8, ChaCha12, XChaCha20, XChaCha12 and XChaCha8 stream ciphers, and also optional randcore-compatible RNGs based on those ciphers.
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The ChaCha20 stream cipher (RFC 8439) implemented in pure Rust using traits from the RustCrypto `cipher` crate, with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration (AVX2, SSE2). Additionally provides the ChaCha8, ChaCha12, XChaCha20, XChaCha12 and XChaCha8 stream ciphers, and also optional rand_core-compatible RNGs based on those ciphers.
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