NEWS entries for chacha and AEAD.

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        * Support for poly1305-aes MAC.
 
-       * Support for the Chacha stream cipher.
+       * Experimental support for the Chacha stream cipher and the
+          chacha-poly1305 AEAD mode. Specifications are still in
+          flux, and future releases may do incompatible changes to
+          track standardization. Currently uses 256-bit key and 64-bit
+          nonce.
 
        * Support for EAX mode.
 
+       * New interfaces for mechanisms providing authenticated
+         encryption with associated data (AEAD).
+       
        Optimizations:
 
        * New x86_64 assembly for GCM and MD5. Modest speedups on the