2024-06-29 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. The XAES-256-GCM extended-nonce AEAD Total comment counts : 10 Summary The article announces the existence of the XAES-256-GCM specification, which is an authenticated encryption with additional data (AEAD) algorithm. It has 256-bit keys and 192-bit nonces. The algorithm was designed with the goal of enabling safer and more user-friendly APIs for automatically generating fresh nonces. It is compliant and compatible with various settings where alternative large-nonce AEADs are not an option....