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+# The ChaCha family of stream ciphers
+
+## Features
+
+- pure Rust implementation
+- supports the RustCrypto API
+- builds on stable Rust
+- portable
+- fast: within 15% of throughput of a hand-optimized ASM SIMD implementation
+ (floodberry/chacha-opt) on my machine (a Xeon X5650, using ppv-lite86)
+- no-std compatible (std required only for runtime algorithm selection)
+
+## Supported Variants
+
+ChaCha20: used in chacha20-poly1305 in TLS, OpenSSH; arc4random in the BSDs,
+Linux /dev/urandom since 4.8.
+
+Ietf: IETF RFC 7539. Longer nonce, short block counter.
+
+XChaCha20: constructed analogously to XSalsa20; a mixing step during
+initialization allows using a long nonce and along with a full-sized block
+counter.
+
+ChaCha12, ChaCha8: faster; lower security margin of safety.