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diff --git a/README.boringcrypto.md b/README.boringcrypto.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b6f5805429 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.boringcrypto.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# dev.boringcrypto branch + +We have been working inside Google on a fork of Go that uses +BoringCrypto (the core of [BoringSSL](https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/)) for various crypto primitives, in +furtherance of some [work related to FIPS 140-2](http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp2964.pdf). We have heard that +some external users of Go would be interested in this code as well, so +I intend to create a new branch dev.boringcrypto that will hold +patches to make Go use BoringCrypto. + +Unlike typical dev branches, we do not intend any eventual merge of +this code into the master branch. Instead we intend to maintain in +that branch the latest release plus BoringCrypto patches. In this +sense it is a bit like dev.typealias holding go1.8+type alias patches. + +To be clear, we are not making any statements or representations about +the suitability of this code in relation to the FIPS 140-2 standard. +Interested users will have to evaluate for themselves whether the code +is useful for their own purposes. |