I'm curious if there are any good benchmarks of ChaCha8 (as advocated for in the "Too Much Crypto" paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf ) vs hardware-accelerated AES.
The best I could find was a rough 2.5x speedup of ChaCha8 vs ChaCha20 in the "Too Much Crypto" paper and https://github.com/jedisct1/rust-aegis#benchmarks that benchmarks ChaCha20 and various AES implementations in addition to AEGIS, where it looks like ChaCha8 might be competitive with hardware-accelerated AES on some platforms (AMD) but not others (M1).
The best I could find was a rough 2.5x speedup of ChaCha8 vs ChaCha20 in the "Too Much Crypto" paper and https://github.com/jedisct1/rust-aegis#benchmarks that benchmarks ChaCha20 and various AES implementations in addition to AEGIS, where it looks like ChaCha8 might be competitive with hardware-accelerated AES on some platforms (AMD) but not others (M1).