Trail of Bits

Go Crypto Libraries

Type

Security review

Client

Google

Date

2025-03

Domain

Crypto

Effort

12 wks

Section

Cryptography Reviews

Trail of Bits's security review of Google (Mar 2025) identified 6 issues: 1 low, and 5 informational.

Findings · 6

  1. 1 Fiat conversion from bytes to field elements is not constant time Informational
  2. 2 P-256 conditional negation is not constant time in PowerPC assembly Informational
  3. 3 Custom finalizer may free memory at the start of a C function call using this memory Low
  4. 4 The CTR-DRBG module presents multiple misuse risks Informational
  5. 5 PBKDF2 does not enforce output length limitations Informational
  6. 6 Timing leak in edwards25519 Scalar.SetCanonicalBytes Informational

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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