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A vendor is certifying a TLS 1.3 stack for a government customer and must document the minimum algorithm support a conforming implementation owes. To save code space the team proposes shipping ChaCha20-Poly1305 as the only bulk option. Which cipher suite does a conforming implementation have to support?
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Answer: A. TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 is required, while AES-256-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 are recommended rather than mandatory.
Only TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 is mandatory to implement in TLS 1.3; AES-256-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 are merely recommended, so shipping ChaCha20 alone leaves the implementation non-conforming.
Source: RFC 9846 (IETF) — RFC 9846 > 9.1 Mandatory-to-Implement Cipher Suites