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ajnin on Dec 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Entering Public Beta

I'm wondering about that too since I'm running some very low power web servers (ESP8266) and I don't know if HTTPS is even feasible on these devices. I hope HTTPS become the preferred default but is not made mandatory by browser vendors.

epimenov on Dec 4, 2015 [–]

People are working on bringing ChaCha20-Poly1305 to TLS for this.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-pol...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/do-the-chacha-better-mobile-perf...

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