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ChaCha is in many ways better, but so far AES tends to win on most chips due to the existence of AES acceleration hardware. Without acceleration ChaCha is a lot faster, but with acceleration AES beats it quite a bit in both raw performance and power consumption.

Security-wise they are roughly equivalent in practice if they are used properly.

parent api 1 year ago

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