What chipher, age using for body encryption when using ssh recipient? #374
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Sorry for stupid question and my English... But, my file encrypted with chacha20 or using only ssh key elliptic curve?? |
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covert-encryption
Dec 13, 2021
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The data is always encrypted using ChaCha20 with Poly1305 authentication. The key for ChaCha encryption comes from SSH or other recipient keys/password that may use elliptic curves for key derivation (or more specifically ECDH over X25519 keys). |
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The data is always encrypted using ChaCha20 with Poly1305 authentication. The key for ChaCha encryption comes from SSH or other recipient keys/password that may use elliptic curves for key derivation (or more specifically ECDH over X25519 keys).