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Generating UUIDs in Go

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0000

UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) serve as a standard for generating identifiers that are unique across time and space. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to generate UUIDs in Go using the google/uuid package. These can be especially useful when generating IDs across different systems - where it wouldn’t be possible to track using an auto incrementing integer.

SHA3 Hash in Golang (256-bit)

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:30:00 +0000

You can use the golang.org/x/crypto/sha3 [docs] package to perform SHA-3 encoding on a string. We have an example function below, it will take your string and write it as a hash. Then convert that binary back into a hexadecimal string using Sprintf.

Advantages of Using SHA3

Security: SHA-3 was designed to provide higher security compared to SHA-2 by using a different construction called “sponge construction”, which makes it more resistant to various types of attacks, such as collision and preimage attacks.

MD5 Encoding in Golang

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000

You can use the crypto/md5 [docs] package in Go to perform MD5 encoding on a string. We have an example function below, it will take your string and write it as a hash. Then convert that binary back into a hexadecimal string using Sprintf.

Note: There are more modern approaches than md5 these days - and it isn’t recommended for many things, but definitely not password hashing.

Here’s an example of how to use it:

Convert an io.ReadCloser to String

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Using Go, we often make HTTP calls these days using net/http, which result in a response of type io.ReadCloser… which are hard to read for the layman (like me). What we really want to the response in the form of a string which we can read. This post will talk about how to convert these ReadCloser into strings.

First we’ll look at the problem, then we have two different solutions.