2025 Go Cryptography Ecosystem Review: Annual Updates and Developments
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Summary
The article presents a comprehensive overview of developments at the intersection of Go programming language and cryptography over the past year, based on a State of the Union talk delivered at GopherCon US 2025. It covers updates to Go's cryptography libraries, new features, security improvements, and community developments in the Go cryptography ecosystem. The content serves as an annual review and technical update for developers working with cryptography in Go.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at GopherCon US 2025 in New York.
It goes into everything that happened at the intersection of Go and cryptography over the last year.
You can watch the video (with manually edited subtitles, for my fellow subtitles enjoyers) or read the transcript below (for my fellow videos not-enjoyers).
The annotated transcript below was made with Simon Willison's tool.
All pictures were taken around Rome, the Italian countryside, and the skies of the North.
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