https://trifectatech.org Zola en Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Folkert de Vries https://trifectatech.org/blog/translating-bzip2-with-c2rust/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/translating-bzip2-with-c2rust/ <p>Over the past couple of months we've been hard at work on <a href="https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/libbzip2-rs">libbzip2-rs</a>, a 100% Rust drop-in compatible implementation the bzip2 compression and decompression functionality.</p> Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Folkert de Vries https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/ <p>We've released version <a href="https://crates.io/crates/libz-rs-sys">0.4.2</a> of <a href="https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/zlib-rs">zlib-rs</a>, featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.</p> Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/trifecta-tech-foundation-joins-nonprofit-cyber/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/trifecta-tech-foundation-joins-nonprofit-cyber/ <p>The first coalition of cybersecurity nonprofits focused on tangible results welcomes the addition of four new members: PuntoGal, Internet Security Research Group, Trifecta Tech Foundation, and The Retired Investigators Guild.</p> Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Folkert de Vries https://trifectatech.org/blog/fastest-wasm-zlib/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/fastest-wasm-zlib/ <p>This year we started work on <a href="https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/zlib-rs">zlib-rs</a>, an implementation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib">Zlib</a> in Rust, with the goal of maintaining excellent performance while introducing memory safety.</p> Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Erik Jonkers https://trifectatech.org/blog/new-home-for-memory-safe-zlib/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/new-home-for-memory-safe-zlib/ <p>Today we're pleased to announce that the recently developed open source memory safe implementation of zlib – <a href="https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/zlib-rs">zlib-rs</a> – initiated by ISRG's <a href="https://www.memorysafety.org">Prossimo project</a> now has a new long-term home at our Trifecta Tech Foundation.</p> Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ruben Nijveld https://trifectatech.org/blog/enabling-pools-in-nts/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/enabling-pools-in-nts/ <p>We previously talked about how <a href="https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/122/a-safe-internet-requires-secure-time">secure time is required for a safe internet</a>. We mentioned how we want to increase the adoption of NTS, the secure time synchronization standard built on top of NTP. For this, we proposed to develop a public NTS pool. In this article, we expand on what pooling is, and what is required to enable an NTS pool.</p> Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/ispcs-paper-estimating-noise-for-clock-synchronizing-kalman-filters/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/ispcs-paper-estimating-noise-for-clock-synchronizing-kalman-filters/ <p>Our Statime project now provides strong synchronization performance and accurate synchronization error estimates. David's paper, soon to be published by the IEEE, describes our Kalman-based approach.</p> Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-pendulum/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-pendulum/ <p>Sovereign Tech Fund will support our effort to build modern and memory-safe implementations of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and the Precision Time Protocol (PTP).</p> Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Folkert de Vries https://trifectatech.org/blog/current-zlib-rs-performance/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/current-zlib-rs-performance/ <p>Our <a href="https://github.com/memorysafety/zlib-rs"><code>zlib-rs</code></a> project implements a drop-in replacement for <code>libz.so</code>, a dynamic library that is widely used to perform gzip (de)compression.</p> Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/a-new-home-for-memory-safe-sudo/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/a-new-home-for-memory-safe-sudo/ <p>Today we're pleased to announce that an open source memory safe implementation of sudo/su — sudo-rs — has a new long-term home at the Trifecta Tech Foundation.</p> Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Erik Jonkers https://trifectatech.org/blog/trifecta-tech-foundation-announcement/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/trifecta-tech-foundation-announcement/ <p>Today, we are proud to announce the Trifecta Tech Foundation.</p> Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/more-memory-safety-for-let-s-encrypt-deploying-ntpd-rs/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/more-memory-safety-for-let-s-encrypt-deploying-ntpd-rs/ <p>When we look at the general security posture of Let’s Encrypt, one of the things that worries us most is how much of the operating system and network infrastructure is written in unsafe languages like C and C++.</p> Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/want-more-rust-break-the-cycle/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/want-more-rust-break-the-cycle/ <p>How? By oxidizing education. That's right: introduce Rust in higher education making sure more students enter the job market.</p> Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/a-safe-internet-requires-secure-time/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/a-safe-internet-requires-secure-time/ <p>The internet has a hole at the bottom of its trust stack, and we need to do something about it. In particular, the internet needs secure time synchronization to fortify the security of our digital world.</p> Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/on-rust-memory-safety-and-open-source-infrastructure/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/on-rust-memory-safety-and-open-source-infrastructure/ <p>Addressing memory safety in critical infrastructure is a complex issue with multiple approaches. The Sovereign Tech Fund supports several initiatives, including Pendulum's memory safe Network Time Protocol, that is highlighted in this article.</p> Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/providing-official-fedora-linux-rpm-packages-for-ntpd-rs-and-sudo-rs/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/providing-official-fedora-linux-rpm-packages-for-ntpd-rs-and-sudo-rs/ <p>Memory safe NTP and sudo are now in Fedora Linux.</p> Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/flate2-release-v1-0-29-with-new-zlib-rs-feature/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/flate2-release-v1-0-29-with-new-zlib-rs-feature/ <p>With the new zlib-rs feature, a new backend is enabled that brings in a SIMD-accelerated Rust implementation.</p> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/rust-makes-dns-and-time-software-more-secure/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/rust-makes-dns-and-time-software-more-secure/ <p>SIDN writes about vital software for critical internet infrastructure reimplemented in memory safe languages. The article lists sudo-rs and Pendulum as prime examples of employing Rust for Rust for critical software.</p> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/intro/ https://trifectatech.org/intro/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/xz-incident-shows-the-need-for-structural-change/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/xz-incident-shows-the-need-for-structural-change/ <p>At Sovereign Tech Fund, we're following the xz incident closely and listening to the many voices in the FOSS maintainer community.</p> Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/sudo-rs-dependencies-when-less-is-better/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/sudo-rs-dependencies-when-less-is-better/ <p>Trifecta Tech Foundation maintainer Ruben Nijveld offers his perspective here on one of the greatest challenges we faced when developing software that can be widely adopted: Rust crate dependencies.</p> Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/testing-sudo-rs-and-improving-sudo-along-the-way/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/testing-sudo-rs-and-improving-sudo-along-the-way/ <p>Faced with the task of re-implementing sudo, one of the questions that came up early on was: how do we verify that sudo-rs behaves just like the original sudo?</p> Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/re-implementing-sudo-in-rust/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/re-implementing-sudo-in-rust/ <p>A drop-in replacement for all common modern use cases of sudo.</p> Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Unknown https://trifectatech.org/blog/two-core-unix-like-utilities-sudo-and-su-are-getting-rewrites-in-rust/ https://trifectatech.org/blog/two-core-unix-like-utilities-sudo-and-su-are-getting-rewrites-in-rust/ <p>Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure pieces replaced by memory-safe counterparts.</p>