EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA(7SSL)

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💖 EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the OpenSSL manual page for EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA, section 7SSL — yes she's a section 7 page, she's giving overview, she's giving lore, and she's honestly so iconic for it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA — the ChaCha EVP_CIPHER implementations, no cap 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically, this page is the whole vibe check on support for CHACHA symmetric encryption when you're rolling with the EVP_CIPHER API. That's it, that's the energy 💅

🦋 Algorithm Names 🦋

these are the algorithms that are available in the default provider, periodt:

  • "ChaCha20"
  • "ChaCha20-Poly1305"

🍓 Parameters 🍓

This implementation supports the parameters described in "PARAMETERS" in EVP_EncryptInit(3) — so if you wanna know your options, that's the page to go read, iykyk 📖✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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>
fr fr bestie, that license bit is not a suggestion — "you may not use this file except in compliance with the License" is giving very serious main character rules, so read it 🫶

and that's the whole page!! 🥳 this was version 4.0.3, dated 2026-09-29, and it's the EVP_CIPHER-CHACHA (7SSL) page — mwah, slay, go encrypt something responsibly 💖✨🦋

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