An intriguing exchange happened on the Linux Kernel Mailing List after a post by Nick Desaulniers, a Google software engineer working on compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang (and LLVM). Hackaday reports: Nick simply tested the waters for a possible futu... (more…)

37.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are memory safety issues, while only 27.2% are cryptographic issues, according to an empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries (Jenny Blessing, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner ... (more…)

I hope you're using any sort of logging in your applications. Even if that...

At Kudelski Security, we perform quite a few security and cryptography reviews involving Rust code. Rust support in tooling has been lacking. We’ve developed some tools internally to assist i… (more…)

Developers’ love for Rust has translated into real-world adoption. On 6/2/2020, TIOBE reported that Rust broke into TIOBE index top 20 for the first time. (more…)