Michael McLoughlin

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New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job

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The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today!

FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.

Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

V8 Security is hiring in Munich, Germany: www.google.com/about/career...

Great opportunity to work on some really hard and interesting problems in the security space!

Go Cryptography Security Audit Go's cryptography libraries underwent an audit by Trail of Bits. Read more about the scope and results.

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾

Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨

Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

GitHub - ryancdotorg/llhash: A permissively licensed, low-level, high-performance cryptographic hash library for hackers. A permissively licensed, low-level, high-performance cryptographic hash library for hackers. - ryancdotorg/llhash

If you want to see an utterly mad codebase, I have a project for that:

github.com/ryancdotorg/...

I wrote Python scripts that generate C preprocessor macros which are evaluated to generate C and assembly source files which contain yet more macros which are then finally compiled.

☕️ We’re running LATTE again: our ASPLOS workshop about languages/compilers/tools/whatever for hardware design.

Submissions are just little 2-pagers, due on January 31. Plenty of time to throw something together! capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte25/

Welcome! go.bsky.app/6kzdn3x

A stopped-in-time physical simulation of xkcd 2347 collapsing due to removal of the critical dependency.

Back in April, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I talked to Andres Freund on the @oxide.computer podcast to discuss the xz fiasco; over on Mastodon I described making the image, and since its starting to be used without attribution, I thought I'd talk about it here... share.transistor.fm/s/e2538f7d

GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge

I used this github.com/kawamataryo/...

Wanting to see more #golang content here, let me try to get the ball rolling with a developers plus contributors starter pack!

go.bsky.app/Hz6nVzr

On the road to Chicago for #GopherCon! Looking forward to seeing all you gophers there.