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		grittygrease on May 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go crypto: bridging the performance gap The OpenSSL AES-GCM and P256 assembly code was also written by Vlad. There's no better person to write the Golang version.

sdevlin on May 7, 2015 | [–]

Neat, I didn't even notice this.

Vlad Krasnov is also a co-author of this paper on state-of-the-art P256 implementation: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/816.pdf.

thomasahle on May 7, 2015 | [–]

That's a good argument. However (unless the changes get merged upstream) it is still one more crypto library for 'bad people' to find weaknesses in.

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