autocert VS Themis

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The version in the Golang stdlib is a pure-go implementation, but there's an assembler variant optimized for amd64 (https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/sha3/keccakf_am...), which is apparently derived from the XKCP package.

Bad news for the (mostly-Golang) Ethereum ecosystem...

Learn crypto library and how to encrypt and hash: https://github.com/golang/crypto

In last section we have created users table in our database, but we are currently storing user's password in plain text. This is something we should never do, and instead we need to store hashed password with random salt. For that we will use golang/crypto library. First we need to expand our User structure:

So in conclusion, croc seems to be pretty secure as long as you use P-256 (or P-384). Internally, the standard golang.org/x/crypto library is used, which I can guarantee is very secure, as it is used in millions of web servers around the world, and Go is a language maintained by Google, which has many security professionals at their disposal. Ultimately, the decision is yours. While I can give you my opinion and point you to correct documents, you should trust nobody other than yourself. Not even me. But still, I recommend P-256 above everything else.

I've been considering developing suck tools with Golang. Golang's crypto package golang crypto might be a great starting point if your familiar with language.

https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/eec23a3978adcfd26c29f4153eaa3e3d9b2cc53a/bcrypt/bcrypt.go#L234-L254

Now, the real world work starts. We introduce interns to the world of popular cryptographic libraries, help them to make their first OSS contributions, and let them practice with our cryptographic library Themis which provides a high-level crypto API on 14 languages.