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Microsoft Maintains Go Fork for FIPS 140-2 Support

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43 points dschofie | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | source
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metadat ◴[30 Apr 24 22:22 UTC] No.40217149[source]▶
There used to be the GO FIPS branch:

https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.boringcrypto/misc/bori...

But it looks dead for some time.

However https://github.com/golang-fips/go sprung up to take it's place.

I wonder why microsoft prefers to maintain it's own in entirety rather than share a piece of the burden.

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1. abtinf ◴[30 Apr 24 22:40 UTC] No.40217321[source]▶
> Our goal is to share this implementation with others in the Go community who have the same requirement, and to merge this capability into upstream Go as soon as possible.

From the readme.