Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

Initiatives

Rustls

Let's get the Rustls TLS library ready to replace OpenSSL in as many projects as possible.

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DNS

Let's create a memory safe, high performance, fully recursive DNS resolver.

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From our blog

March 9, 2023

A Safer High Performance AV1 Decoder

Memory safety for a major source of exploitable vulnerabilities.

March 8, 2023

Klint: Compile-time Detection of Atomic Context Violations for Kernel Rust Code

The klint tool will help facilitate adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel.

January 31, 2023

Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety

Guest author Rémy Rakic discusses his work to improve Rust compiler performance.

January 26, 2023

Assessing Progress on Memory Safety at USENIX Enigma Conference

A reflection on the lively conversation about challenges and opportunities to improve memory safety.

December 5, 2022

A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director

It's been an exciting year for ISRG and its projects: from Let's Encrypt issuing its three billionth certificate to Prossimo supporting the efforts to get Rust into the Linux kernel.

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When you support Prossimo, you’re helping to create a future for the Web that is more memory safe and more secure - and that benefits everyone using it!

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Prossimo works to connect maintainers behind the Internet's most critical pieces of software with the people and organizations who want to see Internet security move forward by adopting memory safe languages. Here's the simple framework of how Prossimo works:

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  3. Commence the initiative

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