* Headers gain 3 bytes of reserved zeros
@ 2016-12-16 4:47 Jason A. Donenfeld
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From: Jason A. Donenfeld @ 2016-12-16 4:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I did it. White paper updated. Protocol webpage updated.
Benefits:
- Natural 4 byte alignment of ciphertext, which confers significant
speedups on many platforms
- Natural 4 byte alignment of resultant plaintext IP packet; similar speedups.
- Natural integer alignment of index and nonce; similar speedups for
packet lookups.
- Easier to implement in hardware.
- Protocol is more extendable.
Detriments:
- 3 bytes less in the MTU.
This will be part of the next snapshot.
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