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The Go Workshop
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The Go Workshop

by Delio D'Anna, Andrew Hayes, Sam Hennessy, Jeremy Leasor, Gobin Sougrakpam, Dániel Szabó, Philipp Mieden, David Parker, Gwenn Etourneau, Arpit Aggarwal, Eugene Wang
December 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
824 pages
14h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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18. Security

Overview

This chapter aims to equip you with the basic skills to protect your code from attacks and vulnerabilities. You will be able to evaluate the workings of major attack vectors, implement crypto libraries for the encryption and decryption of data and implement communication security by using TLS certificates.

By the end of the chapter, you will be equipped to identify common issues with code that could lead to security loopholes, and refactor code to make it more secure.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we learned about Go tools such as fmt, vet, and race, which are designed to help you with your code development. Let's now look at how to secure your code by looking at examples of common vulnerabilities. We'll also ...

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