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XAES-256-GCM (2024) (filippo.io)
2 points by jasonthorsness 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Found this through the Go blog where they've done some special work to support it recently in their FIPS-140-3 effort:

https://go.dev/blog/fips140

Nonce management with AES GCM is a huge pain, and I think this provides a way to just throw more randomness at the problem and stop worrying about it.




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