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Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes
Microsoft Go 1.24 ships with many new FIPS-140 related features. Here's a closer look at the upcoming changes.
The benefit is that the certified cryptographic module is written in pure Go (and Go assembly) rather than using cgo or syscalls to call into third-party libraries. Microsoft Go takes an alternative approach to FIPS compliance: it uses system libraries to perform cryptographic operations. This means that developers can leverage these libraries to perform cryptographic operations in a FIPS-compliant manner on macOS.
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