DTLS alternative

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MartinG

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Feb 27, 2016, 3:48:35 PM2/27/16
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Hi,

In the absence of a DTLS implementation in Go, what do folks recommend as a reasonable way to achieve authenticated private datagram based communication in pure Go?

I couldn't find any example code out there and I'm not going to attempt to roll my own crypto (or to implement DTLS) except as a last resort.

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Egon

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Feb 27, 2016, 4:05:33 PM2/27/16
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On Saturday, 27 February 2016 22:48:35 UTC+2, MartinG wrote:
Hi,

In the absence of a DTLS implementation in Go, what do folks recommend as a reasonable way to achieve authenticated private datagram based communication in pure Go?

Searchin on godoc.org usually helps, currently it came up with two:


Not sure what you are doing, i.e. trying to connect via DTLS or just implement secure UDP, QUIC might also be applicable/usable:


But, I have no clue about the quality of any of them.

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Donovan Hide

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Feb 27, 2016, 7:29:13 PM2/27/16
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There is a Go DTLS client by agl embedded in the boringssl test runner, which makes for interesting reading, but it comes with many caveats:

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