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Josh Aas

@joshaas.bsky.social

Head of ISRG (Let’s Encrypt, Divvi Up, Prossimo).

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Josh Aas@joshaas.bsky.social · last yr.

We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works great except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-p...

$20,000 rav1d AV1 Decoder Performance Bounty

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 2...

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Sean McArthur@seanmonstar.com · 2y ago

hyper in curl needs a champion. A backing vendor or distro that wants it.❤️ Why? Report after report: Memory un-safety. Is. BAD. A #rustlang HTTP backend in #curl has potential to make the internet safer. 🦀 But it needs a champion to back it, or it will go away. 🚀 seanmonstar.com/blog/hyper-i...

hyper in curl Needs a Champion

tl;dr - hyper in curl is nearly complete, but it needs a champion. Without a partner actively engaged that wants to enable and ship, it’s now on the path for...

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Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 2y ago

Let's Encrypt is one of my favorite tech organizations of all time. letsencrypt.org/about

About Let's Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). We give peop...

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Richard Barnes@ipv.sx · 2y ago

We launched Let’s Encrypt with a handful of sponsors. It’s not impossible with the right coalition!