Open infrastructure software in the public interest

Why

The Internet, and our vital systems for water, energy, and communication, require safe software - free from for-profit motives.

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What we do

We develop and maintain digital commons, open-source software and open standards for these vital systems.

Funders & supporters

Infrastructure projects

Time synchronization

Reliable, securely synchronized time is a building block for the Internet and other critical infrastructure.

Automated Demand Response

With the rise of renewable energy resources and ongoing electrification, automated demand response plays a crucial role in optimizing the use of our electricity grid.

Data compression

Compression algorithms are used in a vast number of protocols and file formats throughout all of computing.Implemented in C, these libraries encounter regular security issues despite receiving extensive industry-wide scrutiny.

Privilege boundary

The sudo and su utilities mediate a critical privilege boundary on almost every open-source operating system that powers the Internet.

Ecosystem projects

Making Rust faster than C

Our mission is to make critical infrastructure software safer. For that to happen in all relevant areas, performance considerations must be removed as a blocking counter-argument to the memory safe language Rust.

Education - teach-rs

Teach-rs is a university course for computer science students, introducing the Rust Programming Language, and is available for anyone who wants to teach Rust.

We believe that software must become safer; that this is paramount in critical infrastructure; and that Rust is an outstanding choice of technology for this purpose.

Our technology

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Who we are

Trifecta Tech Foundation is a non-profit that develops and maintains digital commons, open-source software and open standards for vital systems.

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