What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 1

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team sit down with Natalie to catch us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. No, not that crypto… good ol’ cryptography! Don’t miss Part 2!

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Featuring:

• Filippo Valsorda – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Roland Shoemaker – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2
• MultiAlgorithmSigner
• OpenSSH format keys

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Introducing our guests (00:00:40)

3. Crypto library (00:03:05)

4. RSA backend (00:08:09)

5. Crypto/ecdsa (00:08:52)

6. Crypto/ecdh (00:11:34)

7. How we make changes (00:17:51)

8. Godebugs (00:25:16)

9. TLS cipher suites (00:27:36)

10. RSA cipher suites (00:29:19)

11. Bleichenbacher attacks (00:29:32)

12. X.509 fallback roots (00:37:10)

13. Thinking on the future (00:41:18)

14. Math/rand (00:42:14)

15. AEADs (00:44:54)

16. Post-quantum (00:47:32)

17. Unpopular opinions (00:49:44)

18. Roland's unpop (00:50:21)

19. Filippo's unpop (00:53:56)

20. Natalie's unpop (00:56:29)

21. Outro (00:57:17)