A Go package (aesgcm) that implements the following AEAD Algorithms two times faster than the standard library 'crypto/cipher'.
| IANA AEAD Registry (Numeric ID) |
Name | Reference | Key size | Nonce size | MAC size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AEAD_AES_128_GCM | RFC5116 | 128-bit | 96 bits | 128 bit |
| 2 | AEAD_AES_256_GCM | RFC5116 | 256-bit | 96 bits | 128 bit |
| 5 | AEAD_AES_128_GCM_8 | RFC5282 | 128-bit | 96 bits | 64 bit |
| 6 | AEAD_AES_256_GCM_8 | RFC5282 | 256-bit | 96 bits | 64 bit |
| 7 | AEAD_AES_128_GCM_12 | RFC5282 | 128-bit | 96 bits | 96 bit |
| 8 | AEAD_AES_256_GCM_12 | RFC5282 | 256-bit | 96 bits | 96 bit |
NIST: The Galois/Counter Mode of Operation (GCM) - David A. McGrew, John Viega
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/proposedmodes/gcm/gcm-revised-spec.pdf
IETF RFC4116 An Interface and Algorithms for Authenticated Encryption
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5116
IETF RFC5282
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5282