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by Gibbon1 3608 days ago
Not sure about ChaCha but I implemented Salsa20 on a microcontroller. Looked to me that you could generate a mechanical proof that it's 'secure' IE, doesn't have a hole in the design. Also that the microprocessor isn't going to expose you to an oddball timing attack. The adds, xors and rotations aught to be single cycle and the code paths never change based on any of the results.