News and blogs
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Translating bzip2 with c2rust
Over the past couple of months we've been hard at work on libbzip2-rs, a 100% Rust drop-in compatible implementation the bzip2 compression and decompression functionality.
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zlib-rs is faster than C
We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs, featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.
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Trifecta Tech Foundation joins Nonprofit Cyber
The first coalition of cybersecurity nonprofits focused on tangible results welcomes the addition of four new members: PuntoGal, Internet Security Research Group, Trifecta Tech Foundation, and The Retired Investigators Guild.
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The fastest WASM zlib
This year we started work on zlib-rs, an implementation of Zlib in Rust, with the goal of maintaining excellent performance while introducing memory safety.
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Trifecta Tech Foundation is the new home for memory safe zlib
Today we're pleased to announce that the recently developed open source memory safe implementation of zlib – zlib-rs – initiated by ISRG's Prossimo project now has a new long-term home at our Trifecta Tech Foundation.
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Enabling pools in NTS
We previously talked about how secure time is required for a safe internet. We mentioned how we want to increase the adoption of NTS, the secure time synchronization standard built on top of NTP. For this, we proposed to develop a public NTS pool. In this article, we expand on what pooling is, and what is required to enable an NTS pool.
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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.
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Current zlib-rs performance
Our zlib-rs project implements a drop-in replacement for libz.so, a dynamic library that is widely used to perform gzip (de)compression.
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A new home for memory safe sudo/su
Today we're pleased to announce that an open source memory safe implementation of sudo/su — sudo-rs — has a new long-term home at the Trifecta Tech Foundation.
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Trifecta Tech Foundation: Open infrastructure software in the public interest
Today, we are proud to announce the Trifecta Tech Foundation.
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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++.
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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.
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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.
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Providing official Fedora Linux RPM packages for ntpd-rs and sudo-rs
Memory safe NTP and sudo are now in Fedora Linux.
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Rust makes DNS and time software more secure
SIDN writes about vital software for critical internet infrastructure reimplemented in memory safe languages. The article lists sudo-rs and Pendulum as prime examples of employing Rust for Rust for critical software.
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Sudo-rs dependencies: when less is better
Trifecta Tech Foundation maintainer Ruben Nijveld offers his perspective here on one of the greatest challenges we faced when developing software that can be widely adopted: Rust crate dependencies.
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Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Pendulum
Sovereign Tech Fund will support our effort to build modern and memory-safe implementations of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and the Precision Time Protocol (PTP).
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Testing sudo-rs and improving sudo along the way
Faced with the task of re-implementing sudo, one of the questions that came up early on was: how do we verify that sudo-rs behaves just like the original sudo?
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Re-implementing Sudo in Rust
A drop-in replacement for all common modern use cases of sudo.
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Two core Unix-like utilities, sudo and su, are getting rewrites in Rust
Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure pieces replaced by memory-safe counterparts.
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