I didn't know the name Vlad Krasnow (I'm not that familiar with the crypto world), but from looking at these [1], [2], it seems that he would know what he's talking about from both a crypto and performance viewpoint.

> attempting to make them part of the official Go build for the good of the community

Would be interesting to hear what Adam Langley thinks about this, but I couldn't find anything recent on the golang-dev list.

[1]: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Krasnov:Vlad

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1516766/vlad-krasnov