FreeBSD : OpenSSL -- ChaCha20-Poly1305 nonce vulnerability (e56f2f7c-410e-11e9-b95c-b499baebfeaf)

The OpenSSL project reports : Low: ChaCha20-Poly1305 with long nonces CVE-2019-1543 ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an AEAD cipher, and requires a unique nonce input for every encryption operation. RFC 7539 specifies that the nonce value IV should be 96 bits 12 bytes. OpenSSL allows a variable nonce length...

Design/Logic Flaw

ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an AEAD cipher, and requires a unique nonce input for every encryption operation. RFC 7539 specifies that the nonce value IV should be 96 bits 12 bytes. OpenSSL allows a variable nonce length and front pads the nonce with 0 bytes if it is less than 12 bytes. However it also...

OpenSSL -- ChaCha20-Poly1305 nonce vulnerability

The OpenSSL project reports: Low: ChaCha20-Poly1305 with long nonces CVE-2019-1543 ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an AEAD cipher, and requires a unique nonce input for every encryption operation. RFC 7539 specifies that the nonce value IV should be 96 bits 12 bytes. OpenSSL allows a variable nonce length a...