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Status Submitted
Categories Crypto HW
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2025

Support crypto accelerators in go/crypto / HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise)

Currently HashiCorp Vault is compiled using a statically linked go/crypto library which doesn't use openssl or openCryptoki. This results in no support for libica on IBM Z / LinuxOne machines and thus lower performance than expected.

It would be nice if the s390x binaries for HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise) would support libica either directly or through openssl or openCryptoki. There is also the `go-crypto-openssl` library from Microsoft which could be used to interact between go and openssl: https://github.com/microsoft/go-crypto-openssl

This should increase the performance of Vault running on s390x a lot (especially if a hardware crypto accelerator is attached).

If there would be a `go-crypto-libica` to directly use libica with the go/crypto primitives this would solve this issue for a lot of different applications too!

Idea priority Low