A curated list of awesome golang Security related resources.

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Supported by: GuardRails.io


Tools

Web Framework Hardening

  • nosurf - CSRF protection middleware for Go.
  • gorilla/csrf - Provides Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) prevention middleware for Go web applications & services.
  • gorilla/securecookie - Encodes and decodes authenticated and optionally encrypted cookie values for Go web applications.
  • secure - Secure is an HTTP middleware for Go that facilitates most of your security needs for web applications.

Libraries

  • paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens implementation in GO (Golang)
  • hsts - Go HTTP Strict Transport Security library

Static Code Analysis

  • safesql - Static analysis tool for Golang that protects against SQL injections. It does not seem to be actively maintained at the moment.
  • gosec - Inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go AST and matching it with a set of rules. Comes bundled in a Docker container securego/gosec
  • gometalinter - Concurrently runs most of the existing go linters and normalizes their output.

Vulnerabilities and Security Advisories

Private Key Infrastructure

  • CloudFlare SSL - CFSSL is CloudFlare's PKI/TLS swiss army knife. It is both a command line tool and an HTTP API server for signing, verifying, and bundling TLS certificates.

Educational

Hacking Playground

  • govwa - A vulnerable golang application including the most common vulnerabilities found in web applications today
  • Lambhack - A very vulnerable serverless application in AWS Lambda

Articles, Guides & Talks

Companies

  • GuardRails - A GitHub App that gives you instant security feedback in your Pull Requests.
  • Snyk - A developer-first solution that automates finding & fixing known vulnerabilities in your dependencies.

Other

Reporting Bugs

Contributing

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