Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

ISRG celebrates 10 years of helping build a brighter Internet →

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

May 24, 2023

ISRG’s 10th Anniversary

As ISRG celebrates its 10th anniversary, Co-founder and Executive Director Josh Aas reflects on the accomplishments of the nonprofit and looks ahead to its continued impact in the years to come.

May 11, 2023

AWS commits $1M to bring memory safety to critical parts of the Web

AWS commits $1M to advance four Prossimo initiatives, improving memory safety for TLS, NTP, media codec, and permissions boundaries.

April 26, 2023

Bringing Memory Safety to sudo and su

We are reimplementing sudo and su utilities in Rust.

April 17, 2023

Memory Safe Network Time (NTP) Has New Home, Seeks Early Adopters

Bringing more safety to a critical network-based service.

March 29, 2023

Rustls 0.21.0 Released With Exciting New Features

We’re incredibly excited about the latest release of Rustls, a memory safe TLS implementation

Get Involved

Being part of ambitious work like Prossimo is easier than you might think: 100% of our funding comes from charitable donations from companies and people like you.

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:

  1. Identify an initiative that's a good fit for Prossimo
  2. Seek funding for the initiative
  3. Commence the initiative

By funding, you can support this important work!

Contact us to learn about upcoming Prossimo initiatives: donate@abetterinternet.org

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