EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA(7ossl)

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version 15.1 · 3 versions
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💅 NAME 💅

EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA — The CHACHA EVP_CIPHER implementations. this is the 7ossl manual page from OpenSSL, bestie. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this page is all about support for CHACHA symmetric encryption using the EVP_CIPHER API. yes ma'am, that's the vibe. 💖

🎀 Algorithm Names 🎀

the following algorithms are available in the default provider:

  • ChaCha20
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305

those are the exact names, no cap. ✨

🌸 Parameters 🌸

this implementation supports the parameters described in "PARAMETERS" in EVP_EncryptInit(3). so if you need the parameter deets, that's where they live. 🫶

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

go peek at these besties:

legal time, but make it cute. here's the exact copyright and license tea:

Copyright 2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

mwah 💋 — this is the EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA(7ossl) page from OpenSSL 3.5.6, dated 2026-04-07. periodt. 💖✨

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