Cryptography

Go has a very comprehensive crypto library included as part of the standard library, which covers hashing algorithms, PKI certificates, and symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms.

While it is convenient to have a collection of different ciphers' encryption and hashing libraries available for us to use, it is important for us to be aware of vulnerabilities in these algorithms, so we can choose the most appropriate algorithm for our use case.

For example, the MD5 and SHA-1 hashing algorithms are not considered safe to use for encrypting data, as they are easily brute-forced. However, they are commonly used by file servers to provide file checksums for error checking.

Hashing Libraries

Hashing is the process of converting plaintext data into an encrypted format by implementing an algorithm to produce the encrypted text. The output of such a process is supposed to be unique and the probability of a hash collision, which is two different inputs producing...