How deeply does Go in Practice, Second Edition cover cryptography?

Mentions encryption and library availability but stops short of algorithms, code, configuration, and implementation trade-offs.

Cryptography

As explained in Go in Practice, Second Edition

Cryptography is the discipline of protecting information and communications through techniques such as encryption, hashing, and authentication.

Cryptography protects information and communications through techniques such as encryption, hashing, and authentication. In Go applications, it belongs among the standard library’s ready-made building blocks for networked software, reducing the need to search for external libraries. section 1.2.2

The treatment establishes cryptography as part of Go’s practical application-development toolkit but does not descend into algorithms, API usage, or implementation trade-offs. Standard-library documentation is available through pkg.go.dev/std. section 1.2.2

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confidentialityaddresses · Confidentiality is the security property of protecting information from access or disclosure to unauthorized parties.
encryptionuses · Encryption is the cryptographic transformation of readable data into ciphertext to conceal its contents, reversible through decryption with appropriate information.
data integrityaddresses · Data integrity is the property that data remains accurate, complete, consistent, and valid, with changes made only through authorized actions.
secure multi-party computationincludes · Secure multi-party computation is a cryptographic technique that enables multiple parties to jointly compute a function while keeping their private inputs concealed from one another.
nonrepudiationaddresses · Nonrepudiation is the security property of providing evidence linking an action or message to its purported originator, limiting credible denial.

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