* yes, more modern versions of Go would likely mitigate some of the memory pain
* yes, crypto/tls is fast now
* no, crypto/tls still has insufficient functionality for implementing this. crypto/tls implicitly assumes you want to authenticate the channel through certificates, which Tor doesn't do
* I was using go 1.4
* yes, I tried Rust
* yes, more modern versions of Go would likely mitigate some of the memory pain * yes, crypto/tls is fast now * no, crypto/tls still has insufficient functionality for implementing this. crypto/tls implicitly assumes you want to authenticate the channel through certificates, which Tor doesn't do * I was using go 1.4 * yes, I tried Rust