Second #cryptography question: How widely accepted or controversial is the advice to use XSalsa20-Poly1305 in Latacora's "right answers" series? It's been a while since I've done serious cryptographic work, and the "Use AES" advice was pretty burned into my brain.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/cryptographic-right-answers/

Cryptographic right answers

Cryptographic right answers

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@adamshostack Use XSalsa20-Poly1305, the larger nonces prevent potential foot guns related to shorter nonces in AES.