proposal: crypto/cipher: expose NewGCMWithCounterNonce

[wadey]

Proposal Details

The internal method crypto.internal.fips140.aes.gcm.NewGCMWithCounterNonce was added in go1.24. This method would be nice to expose for users that want to use it for FIPS-140 compliance reasons.

Outside of FIPS reasons, this method is also nice because it asserts your GCM nonces are non-repeating (when you are using a counter).

NewGCMWithRandomNonce was exposed in crypto/cipher with #69981, so I imagine it could be exposed in a similar way.

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues

• crypto/cipher: add NewGCMWithRandomNonce #69981 (closed)

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