7.5x faster encryption in Go with the new "simd" and "simd/archsimd" packages

kerkour.com · 2026-08-19 · by Long Nguyen ·generic
I needed to implement my ChaCha20-BLAKE3 encryption algorithm in Go, but unfortunately ChaCha20 from Go's stdlib is lacking SIMD acceleration on amd64, probably because ChaCha20-Poly1305 (used in TLS) already has

7.5x faster encryption in Go with the new "simd" and "simd/archsimd" packages

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