PuTTY wish chacha20-poly1305

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summary: Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.
fixed-in: 2015-06-08 8581676ee9c4ebd6365444d3d98973bf8fe33ccb (0.68)

OpenSSH has introduced a means of using ChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption in SSH (called chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com); indeed, it's their default cipher as of OpenSSH 6.9. PuTTY now supports that as well.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2016-12-27 11:40:22 +0000)