Yay, the embargo was finally lifted yesterday so we can talk about the UK Government funding for #CHERIoT!

They funded us (SCI) to do two projects, for a total of £7.7M:

• Bring #Rust on CHERIoT to production qualities.
• Build our second-generation chip with a dual-issue core, post-quantum crypto hardware, and an edge inference accelerator.

#CHERI

Was just going on a grey-beard rant about how Rust give developers a false sense of security.

I didn't even notice the TARMageddon vulnerability until now and well this grey beard really only can say "told you so".

This is -precisely- the class of bugs I was describing, and -exactly- due to the reasons I outlined.

The blast radius of this thing is also freaking epic, almost anything that used tar in Rust is vulnerable to possible RCEs lmao.

https://edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon

#Rust #Cybersecurity #tar

#rust

I recently came across an excellent rust quiz from dtolnay:

https://github.com/dtolnay/rust-quiz

Which you can view here:

https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/

Not all of these questions are easy -- in fact, I've probably only got four out of ten correct so far -- which just goes to show how much learning there is to be done. :)

Enjoy!

I feel cheated, I've found a project claiming to be "blazing fast" and it is not written in #rust.
I thought the rustaceans had trademarked the expression 😁😁😁😁

#rustlang #programming