Prossimo with Josh Aas

Allen Wyma talks with Josh Aas (linkedin.com/in/josh-aas-406a772) about his work on Prossimo (memorysafety.org), an Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) (abetterinternet.org) 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 (letsencrypt.org) - a nonprofit Certificate Authority providing TLS certificates to 363 million websites.

• [@06:53] - Divvi Up project (divviup.org) - 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 (ziglang.org) potentially be a competitor to Rust?

• [@39:41] - Closing thoughts.

Credits

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Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)