Re:Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
by nikki93 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:49PM
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can't your security params be read out of the binary in any case? i'm not sure how binaries offer more security.
Re:Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
by weberc2 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:10PM
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His post is super unclear but I think he is concerned about someone getting their hands on his source code. In general, a compiled Go binary is not trivial to reverse engineer, so there’s some security through obscurity there.
Re:Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
by saagarjha on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:57PM
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Not a whole lot, though. A determined reverse engineer will likely be able to grab something close to your source code without much difficulty, assuming you haven't applied any wacky obfuscation.
Uploading source code is a dealbreaker for me because I do not trust Google or myself. Google probably has language in their terms that they may do whatever they want with anything you upload to them.
I also do not trust myself to properly configure security parameters around this with the risk of leaking source code.
Binaries are a great strength of Go. Too bad this platform doesn't use them. I will take a peek at the new Container platform that they are building, but that sounds more heavyweight, which probably comes with a higher price. (I have not seen any actual pricing)