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Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily

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Hacker News | Sep 26, 2026 | zx2c4

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The FIPS140 code, especially its RNG, sits unused and bloaty on the overwhelming majority of Go binaries. This proposal is to add a new GOFIPS140=disabled default value to not compile in unused FIPS code. The new fips140 code adds lots of indirection and gravely bloats the code size of resultant binaries, even when disabled or not in use.

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