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Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Trifecta Tech Foundation is delighted to welcome Canonical as a new Gold sponsor!
Read more on: https://trifectatech.org/blog/new-gold-sponsor-canonical/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
We're excited to share that Firefox now uses zlib-rs for gzip (de)compression. This has both performance and safety advantages, but it took a while to get zlib-rs into production. Read why in Folkert's blog: https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-in-firefox/
Thanks to @glandium@mozilla.social, @gabrielesvelto@mas.to, Bobby Holley, @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl, @sovtechfund@mastodon.social, Chainguard, Astral / @charliermarsh@hachyderm.io, @mozilla@mastodon.social, @ProssimoISRG@infosec.exchange
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
We are proud to announce the first release of our latest data compression project, Zstandard in Rust! Read why we did this, the current state of the project, and where we're hoping to take it: https://trifectatech.org/blog/announcing-zstandard-in-rust/
Zstandard is a modern successor to zlib, providing better compression faster.
Thanks to Chainguard, Astral / @charliermarsh@hachyderm.io, @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl, and @sovtechfund@mastodon.social.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Almost three years ago, sudo-rs was announced to the world. Just last week, it became the default sudo utility in the Ubuntu LTS release Resolute Raccoon. Now is a good time to reflect: https://trifectatech.org/blog/three-years-of-rusty-sudo/
- We've reduced attack surface more than we initially planned to do
- We've dealt with bugs, and are proud of the way we handled them
- We've seen sudo-rs adopted by large and small distros and are hopeful and ready for more
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Folkert and Waffle have submitted a project goal to move explicit tail calls forward in 2026. In this blog, Folkert explains the work ahead: https://trifectatech.org/blog/tail-calls-project-goal/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
In our data compression projects, we sometimes hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling.
In this blog, Folkert covers some of our contributions to the Rust compiler and shows how we have become increasingly comfortable fixing these issues ourselves: https://trifectatech.org/blog/fixing-our-own-problems-in-the-rust-compiler/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
** Announcement ** Ubuntu to adopt ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server.
We're proud of this huge next step for ntpd-rs, and the boost to the impact of our work!
With thanks to @ubuntu@ubuntu.social for their continued support, and our partners and previous supporters, @ProssimoISRG@infosec.exchange, @sovtechfund@mastodon.social, @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz and @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for making this possible.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/announcing-ntpd-rs-as-default-on-ubuntu/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Announcement: ntpd-rs is coming to @ubuntu@ubuntu.social! In RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu.
They will support our work and help us reach a long-term goal in our roadmap: shipping both NTP and the Precision Time Protocol in a single utility.
Also, a big thanks to @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io for the wonderful compliments about sudo-rs in Ubuntu.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOA4GA8tAWA&list=PL1AoGvxomykQcqQZ9oKh3MEi9jcvuoqb6&index=14
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
The Network Time Protocol is generally used completely unprotected, much like the web was before HTTPS. At @fosdem@fosstodon.org 2026, Ruben explained how we aim to push adoption of secure time (NTS) using pools of NTS servers.
Video and slides: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J8UN83-securing_time_with_nts/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Ruben is headed to FOSDEM! Catch his talk 'Securing time with NTS' on Sun 1 Feb at 13.20 in room H.2215 (Ferrer)!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J8UN83-securing_time_with_nts/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Zlib-rs is now feature-complete! We've released v0.6, the first version with a stable and complete API. The blog post has the details.
Zlib-rs offers an alternative to C/C++ counterparts. It provides on-par (or better!) performance while reducing attack surface through memory safety.
With thanks to our maintainer @folkertdev@hachyderm.io, our contributors and @sovtechfund@mastodon.social.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Sudo-rs maintainer Marc Schoolderman was invited to the 2025 Ubuntu Summit to talk about the design choices that shaped sudo-rs.
Watch the talk here: https://trifectatech.org/blog/video-sudo-rs-and-beyond/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
New release of sudo-rs! Version 0.2.11 is out with askpass and multi-lingual support.
We've already started on making sudo speak Dutch. Want to see it in your language? You can start helping out today. PR's are always welcome!
We thank the @sovtechfund@mastodon.social for investing in this work, as well as 15 external contributors!
https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/releases/tag/v0.2.11
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
The joint statement “Improving Europe's cybersecurity posture through memory safety”, has now been published: https://trifectatech.org/blog/calling-for-memory-safety-incentives-in-eu-cybersecurity-policies/
It calls for stronger #MemorySafety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies.
It is endorsed by industry leaders like Infineon Technologies, and industry and academic experts, including experts from Signify, Volvo Cars, Radboud University and Delft University of Technology.
We look forward to presenting it to national and EU policymakers in 2026.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
How do you test code that a CI machine won't run? To support avx-512 SIMD instructions in zlib-rs, we taught Miri how to emulate them.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/emulating-avx-512-intrinsics-in-miri/
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Canonical's @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io talks about our sudo-rs and ntpd-rs (!) in @ubuntu@ubuntu.social, and his bold but level-headed vision on Rust's future for Ubuntu, in the Rust in Production podcast with host @mre@mastodon.social:
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Please support the call for Memory Safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies.
If you agree with the position that memory safety should be on the EU and national cybersecurity agendas, please consider adding your name to this statement to show your support: https://trifectatech.org/blog/support-memory-safety-incentives-in-eu-cybersecurity-policies/
The statement titled “Improving Europe's cybersecurity posture through memory safety” was authored by @tarakiyee@mastodon.online (Sovereign Tech Agency) and Hugo van de Pol (Trifecta Tech Foundation).
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Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Watch Marc's talk at the Ubuntu Summit in London, "Sudo-rs and beyond":
https://www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ60aI?t=18244s
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Plugfest! Ruben and David joined 70 time sync experts to test the next version of NTP, and the all-new Client Server PTP (CSPTP) during the #ISPCS Plugfest in Ottawa:
First implementations of CSPTP (IEEE 1588.1) were tested against each other with Meinberg and NetTimeLogic.
Our #opensource implementation of CSPTP runs in ntpd-rs, with our PTP library Statime under the hood.
We thank Meinberg and Heiko Gerstung for supporting our travel costs.
Images by Meinberg and IEEE I&M Society.
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Ubuntu 25.10, running our sudo-rs as the default sudo, has just been released!
"Rust-based implementations of sudo and coreutils for improved memory safety"
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka
Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
Hello world! Trifecta Tech Foundation is a brand-new nonprofit organization that develops and maintains #opensource infrastructure software.
We are the new long-term home for infrastructure projects like sudo and NTP in Rust, and ecosystem projects such as teach-rs.
@erikjee@fosstodon.org @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl @sovtechfund@mastodon.social @ProssimoISRG@infosec.exchange @ferrous@social.ferrous-systems.com @tweedegolf@fosstodon.org
https://trifectatech.org/blog/trifecta-tech-foundation-announcement/
