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authorJakob Unterwurzacher2021-09-07 17:58:42 +0200
committerJakob Unterwurzacher2021-09-07 18:15:04 +0200
commitf47e287c202ba92e9b48e65bf95e0771c6c4997c (patch)
treed46cfc841c46b82977da1e83dd1be5080edbf8ae /internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go
parentd598536709db355366e90870c6df3508c71c5884 (diff)
stupidgcm: revamp package documentation
Maybe interesting for people following https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/452
Diffstat (limited to 'internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go')
-rw-r--r--internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go b/internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go
index 055b7f7..deb6e2f 100644
--- a/internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go
+++ b/internal/stupidgcm/xchacha.go
@@ -26,12 +26,15 @@ type stupidXchacha20poly1305 struct {
wiped bool
}
-// NewXchacha20poly1305 returns a XChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD that uses the given 256-bit key.
+// NewXchacha20poly1305 returns a XChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher that satisfied the
+// cipher.AEAD interface.
//
// XChaCha20-Poly1305 is a ChaCha20-Poly1305 variant that takes a longer nonce,
// suitable to be generated randomly without risk of collisions. It should be
// preferred when nonce uniqueness cannot be trivially ensured, or whenever
// nonces are randomly generated.
+//
+// Only 32-bytes keys and 24-byte IVs are supported.
func NewXchacha20poly1305(key []byte) cipher.AEAD {
if len(key) != chacha20poly1305.KeySize {
log.Panic("bad key length")