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Nacl is good, but is Go a suitable language for crypto work yet? I understand there were some reservations in the past, though I can't recall exactly what thos
by jlgreco 13y ago
Nacl is good, but is Go a suitable language for crypto work yet? I understand there were some reservations in the past, though I can't recall exactly what those were.
- Jayschwa 13y agoI think Go is in a bit of a chicken-egg problem right now w.r.t. crypto. I recall one of the core devs saying you shouldn't use it for anything where security really matters, because their implementation hasn't really had the tires kicked. The tires probably won't be kicked as much with that sort of suggestion though either.
- bmm6o 13y agoThe only issue I recall is that the random-looking data involved in crypto confuses the conservative GC, so your app is unlikely to release memory in a timely fashion. More of a problem in the small address space of a 32-bit application.