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43 points dschofie | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.218s | source
1. korginator ◴[] No.40218943[source]
You would be interested in this if you need the 'crypto' library to work in a FIPS 140-2 compliant way. You can switch on / off this mode by setting the runtime variable GOFIPS=1 before running your Go program [1]. Nice.

It looks like the Go community officially has no plans to support FIPS140-2 any time, so I'm glad to see this alternative.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/go/tree/microsoft/main/eng/doc/...