Prossimo with Josh Aas
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Prossimo with Josh Aas
Posted Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:33:00 +0000
Allen Wyma talks with Josh Aas about his work on Prossimo, an Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) project that is focusing on moving critical software used on the Internet to a memory safe language, such as Rust.
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Timestamps
- 00:00 - Meet Josh Aas - Executive Director at ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), a non-profit dedicated to building a more secure and privacy-respecting digital infrastructure.
- 01:32 - Let’s Encrypt Project - a nonprofit Certificate Authority providing TLS certificates to 363 million websites.
- 06:53 - Divvi Up project - a privacy-respecting system for aggregate statistics.
- 09:48 - Prossimo - ensuring memory safety for the internet’s most critical infrastructure.
- 15:24 - Discussion about Curl and Rust.
- 19:06 - The benefits of rewriting software, particularly transitioning from C to Rust for improved memory safety.
- 34:19 - The ISRG’s ambition to make the Linux kernel memory-safe with Rust.
- 37:27 - Can Zig potentially be a competitor to Rust?
- 39:41 - Closing thoughts.
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
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