Rust-proofing the internet with ISRG’s Prossimo

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

for Networking

| November 9, 2021

| Topic: Security

You know the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for its Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, the most popular way of securing websites with TLS certificates. The group wants to do more. Its newest project, Prossimo, seeks to make many basic internet programs and protocols memory-safe by rewriting them in Rust.

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