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How to sign messages in Java and verify in Go

In my company, we use Java and Go as our development platforms and of course, sometimes those projects have to communicate with each other. In the current blog post, I would like to introduce our solution to sign messages on the Java side and verify them in a Go service. First, let's talk a bit about architecture. Our Java application spins up new virtual machines in the cloud, and the base image of the instance contains a small Go service. That service is the main entry point of our configuration management system, and we don't want to allow any operation from untrusted clients to modify nodes. Two-way SSL with a signature in the request sounded fair enough to trust in clients. Both components are open source, we don't have any "secret" in the binaries, so we elected RSA asymmetric key pairs to generate and verify signatures. Java has the private key and Go has the public one. Time to go deeper. Java is an old platform (personally I have many years of experi