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Security with Go

By : John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad
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Security with Go

By: John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad

Overview of this book

Go is becoming more and more popular as a language for security experts. Its wide use in server and cloud environments, its speed and ease of use, and its evident capabilities for data analysis, have made it a prime choice for developers who need to think about security. Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information. Defensive topics include cryptography, forensics, packet capturing, and building secure web applications. Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Types

The built-in data types are named intuitively enough. Go comes with a set of integer and unsigned integer types with varying bit lengths. There are also floating point numbers, Booleans, and strings, which should come as no surprise.

There are a few types like runes that are not common in other languages. This section covers all of the different types.

Boolean

The Boolean type represents a true or false value. Some languages don't provide a bool type, and you have to use an integer or define your own enumeration, but Go conveniently comes with a predeclared bool type. The true and false constants are also predefined and used in all lowercase. Here is an example of creating a Boolean:

var customFlag bool = false...