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authorRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2022-07-28 13:06:28 -0400
committerRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2022-07-28 21:13:04 +0000
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doc/go1.19: minor adjustments and links
A few last-minute clarifications before the release. Change-Id: Ia0123441633c147aa3f76ea29ed26c7722e2416c Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/419994 Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
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@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
<h2 id="mem">Memory Model</h2>
<p><!-- https://go.dev/issue/50859 -->
- The <a href="/ref/mem">Go memory model</a> has been revised to align Go with
+ The <a href="/ref/mem">Go memory model</a> has been
+ <a href="https://research.swtch.com/gomm">revised</a> to align Go with
the memory model used by C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Rust, and Swift.
Go only provides sequentially consistent atomics, not any of the more relaxed forms found in other languages.
Along with the memory model update,
@@ -378,11 +379,17 @@ as well as support for rendering them to HTML, Markdown, and text.
<p><!-- CL 391554 --><!-- CL 387554 -->
The <a href="/pkg/crypto/rand/#Prime"><code>Prime</code></a>
- implementation was simplified. This will lead to different outputs for the
- same random stream compared to the previous implementation. The internals
- of <code>Prime</code> are not stable, should not be relied upon not to
- change, and the output is now intentionally non-deterministic with respect
- to the input stream.
+ implementation was changed to use only rejection sampling,
+ which removes a bias when generating small primes in non-cryptographic contexts,
+ removes one possible minor timing leak,
+ and better aligns the behavior with BoringSSL,
+ all while simplifying the implementation.
+ The change does produce different outputs for a given random source
+ stream compared to the previous implementation,
+ which can break tests written expecting specific results from
+ specific deterministic random sources.
+ To help prevent such problems in the future,
+ the implementation is now intentionally non-deterministic with respect to the input stream.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- crypto/rand -->
@@ -390,7 +397,7 @@ as well as support for rendering them to HTML, Markdown, and text.
<dl id="crypto/tls"><dt><a href="/pkg/crypto/tls/">crypto/tls</a></dt>
<dd>
<p><!-- CL 400974 --><!-- https://go.dev/issue/45428 -->
- The <code>tls10default</code> <code>GODEBUG</code> option has been
+ The <code>GODEBUG</code> option <code>tls10default=1</code> has been
removed. It is still possible to enable TLS 1.0 client-side by setting
<a href="/pkg/crypto/tls#Config.MinVersion"><code>Config.MinVersion</code></a>.
</p>
@@ -421,7 +428,7 @@ as well as support for rendering them to HTML, Markdown, and text.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 396774 -->
- Removal of the <code>x509sha1=1</code> <code>GODEBUG</code> option,
+ Removal of the <code>GODEBUG</code> option<code>x509sha1=1</code>,
originally planned for Go 1.19, has been rescheduled to a future release.
Applications using it should work on migrating. Practical attacks against
SHA-1 have been demonstrated since 2017 and publicly trusted Certificate