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Redesign the subkeys derivation and nonce enxtension schemes #5

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The current key derivation and nonce extension scheme are expensive: 2 BLAKE3.derive_key.

Following ChaCha20-Poly1305 (RFC 8439) and XChaCha20 (IETF draft) we could generate the subkeys and chachaNonce in a single ChaCha12 call.

Something like:

key: 32 byte, nonce: 32 bytes

subKeys [64]byte := ChaCha12(key, nonce[0:8], 0, nonce[8:24] || 0x0 * 48)
encryptionKey := subKeys[0:32]
encryptionNonce := nonce[24:32]
authenticationKey := subKeys[32:64]

or

KDF_CONSTANT = "ChaCha12-BLAKE3 KDF"

key: 32 bytes, nonce: 24 bytes

subKeys [64]byte := ChaCha12(key, Uint64FromLE(nonce[8:16]), nonce[16:24], KDF_CONSTANT || 0x0 * 45)
encryptionKey := subKeys[0:32]
encryptionNonce := nonce[0:8]
authenticationKey := subKeys[32:64]

but more elegant.

Ideas are welcome.

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