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Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure: Meet Prossimo
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Moving the Internet's security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code, a project from
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Last week, our executive director joined a fireside chat at on the importance of memory safety. Follow along this week as we highlight the most actionable points made during the conversation about how to eliminate code that lacks memory safety.
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Our Prossimo work is mentioned in a The Cyber Security 202 article out today! The article by and focuses on memory safety and includes quotes from our executive director, Josh Aas. Read more here:
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We're partnering with Rémy Rakic to continue improving Rust compile times as part of our Tools initiative. Thanks to for supporting this work! Read more in a new Prossimo blog post by Rémy:
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We're getting ready to move forward with new developments on Rustls. Want to learn about where we're headed? Check out our work plan:
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New to software security? Read up on the importance of memory safety on our website:
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Learn about the future of memory safety in this Memory Safety Convening report from :
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New from , Stephanie Glen writes about efforts to move toward a more memory safe future -- including our work with Prossimo's memory safety initiatives.
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mod_tls, a new TLS module for Apache httpd, is available for wider testing. Give it a shot if you're running httpd! We hope to have it committed as an experimental module in httpd itself soon.
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Journalist interviewed our executive director Josh Aas for a new article discussing memory safety and how it's being met with mainstream attention. Read more here:
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Our executive director participated in a Fireside Chat yesterday about the state of memory safety at , one of our industry's leading conferences on security and privacy issues. Read about his reflections in a new Prossimo blogpost:
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Thanks to and of for moderating a great Fireside Chat this morning on "The State of Memory Safety" with our executive director Josh Aas and . #enigma2023
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New report from looks at the future of Memory Safety, evaluating the challenges in the ecosystem and providing industry-wide recommendations advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/upl cc
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Exceedingly excited about this "State of Memory Safety" fireside chat at #enigma2023 !!! 's Josh Aas and 's Alex Gaynor!
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We're excited that 's Wolfi distro is enabling memory safe TLS via Rustls and memory safe HTTP via Hyper in curl. And anyone can do it with simple build time flags in curl. Easy peasy memory safety!
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Today at 9 am PST, Prossimo executive director Josh Aas is chatting with , , and during the Fireside Chat on memory safety! Thanks for moderating! #enigma2023 usenix.org/conference/eni
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If you're attending tomorrow, be sure to catch our executive director in a Fireside Chat on memory safety, hosted by folks from #enigma2023
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Miguel Ojeda and Gary Guo are making great progress with our Linux Kernel initiative! We're hoping to support getting some of the first production-ready drivers written in Rust into the kernel, perhaps starting with an NVMe driver.
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In 2022, support for Rust was merged into the Linux kernel. But that's just the beginning; learn about what we plan on doing next:
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Supporting Prossimo helps us continue working with the passionate maintainers and developers at the core of our memory safety initiatives.
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Author covers recent developments with Rust in the Linux kernel in an article for .
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Next week, our executive director is participating in a fireside chat on memory safety! We're excited for this opportunity and look forward to his conversation with , , and ! usenix.org/conference/eni
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We have a lot in store for our Rustls initiative. If you want to learn about the progress we want to make this year, check out the work priorities here:
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Do you want to help a critical digital cause? Donate to Prossimo to support one of our memory safety initiatives.
Getting support for Rust in the Linux kernel is a major development for our initiative. It's also just the beginning. Learn about our plans for 2023 in a recent Prossimo blog post:
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Familiarize yourself with common memory safety bugs:
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“Thank you Mozilla for your huge contribution to the systems software industry. Rust has been an incredible proof that we should be able to expect a language to provide safety while also being performant.” - We couldn’t agree more! Thanks, !
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Read about our sibling projects and our parent nonprofit in our 2022 Annual Report, available directly here:
abetterinternet.org/documents/2022
Visit our DNS initiative work plan to learn about milestones toward Trust-DNS, a memory safe DNS implementation in Rust:
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Keeping track of time is critical for servers and clients on the Internet. That's why we partnered with the team at to develop a Network Time Protocol (NTP) client and server in the memory safe language Rust, called NTPd-rs.
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Help us continue moving Web security forward. Become a sponsor or donate through our website, at:
Q: Is dropping C and C++ really practical?
A: By breaking software down into manageable pieces, we can start making progress. Our goal is not one big-bang rewrite-the-world, but rather to make progress towards reducing our risk.
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When you support our work as a sponsor, you play a meaningful role in the creation of a better Internet. Become a sponsor of a Prossimo initiative today.
Learn about our parent nonprofit ISRG and the work they're doing to help build a better Web:
"Our Prossimo project started in 2020 with a clear goal: move security sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code. Since then, we've gotten a lot of code written to improve memory safety on the Internet." Read more in this year-end letter:
Our first initiative was our curl initiative! Take a look at our work on this initiative here:
Why is memory safety an important part of a more secure Web? Memory safe languages help reduce the risk of bugs like the buffer overflow and use-after-free.
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Kick off the new year by integrating memory safe programming languages into your software projects!
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Anyone can be a Prossimo donor! 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.
We're a project of that's working to bring memory safe code to the most critical parts of the Internet. You can read about our goals and more on our website, at memorysafety.org/about/.