Technical Summary
This document describes the conventions for using ChaCha20-Poly1305
Authenticated Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an authenticated encryption algorithm
constructed of the ChaCha stream cipher and Poly1305 authenticator.
Working Group Summary
The draft had no controversy. Reviews revealed minor nits
that were corrected.
Document Quality
CMS is already deployed, and the draft describes how to use
a specific authenticated encryption algorithm which is expected
to be used in the future. The purpose of the draft is to keep CMS
up to date with security, and thus deployed. Reviews did not
end with important changes in the protocol.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd is Daniel Migault. The irresponsible
Area Director is Stephen Farrell.