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