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can't your security params be read out of the binary in any case? i'm not sure how binaries offer more security.

• weberc2 8y ago
  His post is super unclear but I think he is concerned about someone getting their hands on his source code. In general, a compiled Go binary is not trivial to reverse engineer, so there’s some security through obscurity there.
  • st3fan 8y ago
    Not 'someone'. Google.
    • nikki93 8y ago
      Your secrets are not safe by embedding them in a binary. Compilation is not (necessarily, and at least so in the Go compiler's case) security...
  • saagarjha 8y ago
    Not a whole lot, though. A determined reverse engineer will likely be able to grab something close to your source code without much difficulty, assuming you haven't applied any wacky obfuscation.