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by woodruffw 842 days ago
And one political reason: the existing implementation is FIPS, and FIPS validation is a gigantic pain in the rear :-)
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Has anyone in this space considered adding type annotations to assembly?

It’s totally possible and it’s a thing compilers for memory safe languages sometimes have to do internally.

It wouldn’t take a lot of language engineering to make it nice. You’d end up being able to take that asm code more or less as is and annotate it with just a type proof so that Rust/Go/Fil-C can call into that shit without worrying about it blowing up your rules.