Support native Golang "fips140" mode (#1696)

Add support for the "fips140" mode of Go:

- https://go.dev/doc/security/fips140
- https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/certificate/5247

You can build with `make fips140`, see the README changes for more info.

Some differences from the boringcrypto builds:

- We switch to using `go:linkname crypto/tls.aeadAESGCMTLS13`, which gives us the fips implementation for both `boringcrypto` and `fips140` modes. This means we also no longer need `-checklinkname=0`
- Go native `fips140` doesn't need CGO_ENABLED=1
- We decide if we should use the fips140 GCM at runtime, if `fips140.Enabled()` is true. If you use the `make release-fips140`, we build with build tag `fips140enforce` which ensures the binary is running with fips140 enabled and that only P256 / AES-GCM is being used. If you don't want this enforce mode, you can build without the build tag.
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Wade Simmons
2026-08-21 19:33:40 -04:00
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package nebula
import (
"context"
"crypto/fips140"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
@@ -270,6 +271,9 @@ func (f *Interface) activate() error {
"build", f.version,
"udpAddr", addr,
"boringcrypto", boringEnabled(),
"fips140Version", fips140.Version(),
"fips140Enabled", fips140.Enabled(),
"fips140Enforced", fips140.Enforced(),
)
if f.routines > 1 && !f.outside.SupportsMultipleReaders() {