Go crypto: bridging the performance gap

This post details Cloudflare's significant investment in optimizing Go's cryptography performance. It highlights the creation of assembly implementations for Elliptic Curves and AES-GCM to match or exceed OpenSSL's speed, addressing a critical need for high-volume encryption at Cloudflare's scale. The post also emphasizes the contribution of these performance improvements back to the Go community through a special fork, demonstrating a commitment to open source and shared advancement in cryptographic performance.