[mbreese]

> which the author admits that it also could be a separate package

I don't think the similarity is all that apt.

If the core team is the limiting factor in the PR, and if there is a need for this, then why not just make the separate package and be done with it? If it is popular and core wants to merge it in at a different time, then great.

[c2h5oh]

I'm not aware of a way to plug your own crypto to a lot of things that are part of standard library and I'm not aware of a way to plug your own math library to existing crypto.

[jessaustin]

Would they take PRs for adding that bit of plugability?

[tptacek]

Probably not.

[helper]

There has been some discussion about a pluggable TLS stack: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21753