ISRG's Prossimo is moving critical software to memory safe code.
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Prossimo is pleased to announce the first stable release of sudo-rs, our Rust rewrite of the critical sudo utility. The sudo utility is one of the most common ways for engineers to cross the privilege boundary between user and administrative accounts in the ubiquitous Linux operating system. As such, its security is…
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same…