Oblivious HTTP for Go
Details
- External ID
- 45749011
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Oblivious HTTP for Go
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 29, 2025
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5943396226415094
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I couldn't find a suitable go implementation for Oblivious HTTP Client & Gateway (RFC 9458). So, I'm open sourcing ours.Some background: OHTTP is a protocol that hides who you are from the data you send - if you've ever used products of Apple, Mozilla, Fastly, or Cloudflare (to name a few) you probably used OHTTP.Key Features:- implemented as http.RoundTripper- supports chunked transfer encoding- customizable HPKE (e.g., for custom hardware-based encryption)- built on top of twoway and bhttp librariesRepo: https://github.com/confidentsecurity/ohttpDetail: https://blog.confident.security/ohttp/Explainer: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ohttp-explainedSpecs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9458/ , https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-oht...Feedback welcome!
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- privacy-preserving http implementation for go
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While RFC specs can be translated with LLM help, implementing an RFC-compliant cryptographic transport protocol safely requires rigorous knowledge of secure protocol design.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires implementing RFC 9458 and HPKE (RFC 9180) in Go, building both client libraries and HTTP gateway reverse proxies. The critical and difficult parts are strict binary wire-format parsing, cryptographic key encapsulation/decapsulation without side-channel leaks, and interop testing against existing relay infrastructures (Cloudflare/Fastly). It demands practical expertise in applied network cryptography, secure memory handling, and Go HTTP transport primitives.
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