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TLS negotiated cipher: CHACHA20

Percentage of IRC SSL/TLS servers with cipher negotiated as CHACHA20. Showing percentages for Ergo servers only.

About this test result: ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a widely used secure encryption algorithm. It is said to provide similar security to well-known AES-256 but with better speed, especially on mobile devices. See also this cloudflare blog post for more information. It is one of the 3 ciphers used in TLSv1.3, the others being AES-128 and AES-256. It is also available in TLSv1.2 as an option.
Note on statistics: there is a difference in the gathering of TLS servers between 2017-2019 and 2020-onwards, see SSL/TLS statistics on the data page.

Table

Percentage of IRC SSL/TLS servers with cipher negotiated as CHACHA20. Showing percentages for Ergo servers only.
Version Sep 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023
2.10 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 19% 11%
2.11 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 11%
2.12 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 15%
2.5 0% 0% 0% 0% 11% 33% 100%
2.6 0% 0% 0% 0% 27% 25% 33%
2.7 0% 0% 0% 0% 15% 10% 8%
2.8 0% 0% 0% 0% 11% 33% 50%
2.9 0% 0% 0% 0% 13% 20% 30%
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