Google's effort to mitigate memory-safety issues
The Google Security Blog carries an
announcement of a heightened effort to reimplement security-critical
software in memory-safe languages. "The new Rust-based HTTP and TLS
backends for curl and now this new TLS library for Apache httpd are an
important starting point in this overall effort. These codebases sit at the
gateway to the internet and their security is critical in the protection of
data for millions of users worldwide."