EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA(7ossl)

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💅 EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA (7ossl)

okay so this is the OpenSSL manual page for EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA, which lives in section 7ossl of the OpenSSL docs ✨ no cap, it's short and it's iconic.

🎀 NAME 🎀

EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA — literally the CHACHA EVP_CIPHER implementations. that's the whole name section, bestie 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this page is documenting support for CHACHA symmetric encryption using the EVP_CIPHER API 🔥 that's it, that's the vibe.

🌸 Algorithm Names 🌸

the following algorithms are available in the default provider — like, these are the actual literal strings you'd use:

  • "ChaCha20"
  • "ChaCha20-Poly1305"

that's the list, periodt 💅

🦋 Parameters 🦋

this implementation supports the parameters described in "PARAMETERS" in EVP_EncryptInit(3) — so if you wanna know what params you can fiddle with, that's the page to go read, iykyk.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go check these out, they're the friends of this page:

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> 💖

okay that's the whole page, bestie — stay encrypted, stay slay 💅✨

OpenSSL version 3.5.9, dated 2026-09-29, page EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA(7ossl) — mwah, bye 🫶💜

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