Memory Safety

for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

Initiatives

From our blog

September 17, 2024

River Reverse Proxy Making Great Progress

Memory safe River now supports load balancing, rate limiting, graceful reloads, and more.

September 10, 2024

Optimizing rav1d, an AV1 Decoder in Rust

rav1d is a port of the high performance dav1d AV1 decoder from C to memory safe Rust. An essential goal of this project was maintaining performance, building a memory safe decoder with competitive performance compared to the leading C implementation.

September 9, 2024

Porting C to Rust for a Fast and Safe AV1 Media Decoder

We ported the dav1d AV1 decoder to Rust. Here’s how we did it and what we learned.

July 17, 2024

A new home for memory safe sudo/su

Sudo-rs, an open source memory safe implementation of sudo/su, has a new long-term home at the Trifecta Tech Foundation.

June 24, 2024

More Memory Safety for Let’s Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs

NTP is critical to how TLS works, and now it’s memory safe at Let’s Encrypt.

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