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.
Infrastructure projects
Time synchronization
Reliable, securely synchronized time is a building block for the Internet and other critical infrastructure.
Project Pendulum builds modern implementations of the Network Time Protocol and Precision Time Protocol and creates open services that boost secure time synchronization.
More...Privilege boundary
The sudo and su utilities mediate a critical privilege boundary on almost every open-source operating system that powers the Internet.
Sudo-rs is a sudo alternative that doesn't suffer from memory safety vulnerabilities and is designed to minimize attack surface.
More...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.
Our project plans to create memory-safe implementations of compression libraries bzip2, zlib, xz, and zstd.
More...Ecosystem projects
Education
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.
More...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 technologyRecent news and blogs
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ISPCS paper: Estimating noise for clock-synchronizing Kalman filters
Our Statime project now provides strong synchronization performance and accurate synchronization error estimates. David's paper, soon to be published by the IEEE, describes our Kalman-based approach. Read more ... -
Trifecta Tech Foundation: Open infrastructure software in the public interest
Today, we are proud to announce the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Read more ... -
More Memory Safety for Let’s Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
When we look at the general security posture of Let’s Encrypt, one of the things that worries us most is how much of the operating system and network infrastructure is written in unsafe languages like C and C++. Read more ... -
A safe Internet requires secure time
The internet has a hole at the bottom of its trust stack, and we need to do something about it. In particular, the internet needs secure time synchronization to fortify the security of our digital world. Read more ... -
On Rust, Memory Safety, and Open Source Infrastructure
Addressing memory safety in critical infrastructure is a complex issue with multiple approaches. The Sovereign Tech Fund supports several initiatives, including Pendulum's memory safe Network Time Protocol, that is highlighted in this article. Read more ...
Who we are
The Trifecta Tech Foundation was founded in April of 2024 by Erik Jonkers (chair), Hugo van de Pol (secretary) and Marlon Baeten (treasurer) as the long-term home for the non-profit work originating from Tweede golf.
More about us