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The Microsoft build of Go is a modified version of Go that can build FIPS compliant applications that satisfy internal Microsoft policies.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2024-04-30 · latest 2025-03-11

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  1. …horse to Go these days, though (not just this project)? They even maintain their own Go compiler: https://github.com/microsoft/go It is a huge company. They can do more than one thing. C#/.NET certainly isn't dead, but I'm not sure they…
    comment by 9rx · 2025-03-11 · in A 10x Faster TypeScript
  2. https://github.com/microsoft/go/blob/microsoft/main/patches/... Upstream Go tricks Windows into enabling long path support by setting an undocumented flag in the PEB. The Microsoft Go fork can't use undocumented APIs, so this commit…
    comment by arp242 · 2025-02-07 · in Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes
  3. …as soon as possible. It is also the default 'golang' package on Azure Linux 3.0. Microsoft Go fork: https://github.com/microsoft/go Issue discussing FIPS implementation: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/69536
    comment by infogulch · 2025-02-06 · in Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes
  4. …API Windows has, just like there's a Google's fork that uses BoringSSL), and found this patch: https://github.com/microsoft/go/blob/microsoft/main/patches/... Upstream Go tricks Windows into enabling long path support by setting an…
    comment by dchest · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
  5. If these changes are merged into upstream, then Microsoft may not need their fork: https://github.com/microsoft/go
    comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2024-09-19 · in Go crypto package: obtain a FIPS 140-3 validation
  6. …officially has no plans to support FIPS140-2 any time, so I'm glad to see this alternative. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/go/tree/microsoft/main/eng/doc/...
    comment by korginator · 2024-05-01 · in Microsoft Maintains Go Fork for FIPS 140-2 Support
  7. They document exactly that https://github.com/microsoft/go/tree/microsoft/main/eng/doc/...
    comment by bpicolo · 2024-04-30 · in Microsoft Maintains Go Fork for FIPS 140-2 Support