is this a star wars thing?

An update on rustls performance: it’s still pretty fast.

www.memorysafety.org/blog/26q1-ru...

Taxi Driver OST vibes

keep hearing "PULL UP" "PULL UP" and "TERRAIN, TERRAIN" but i'm pretty sure there's nothing to worry about

I am running an event at the same time - "An Evening Without Michael Gove." Tickets from £127.50

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

I wrote a blog post for the Alpha Omega Foundation on the work I did to surface RustSec advisories on crates.io:

alpha-omega.dev/blog/surfaci...

github (2026, oil on canvas)

Merkle Tree Certs!

#realworldcrypto

None of you are giving me enough credit for not participating on the TLS working group mailing list. You're welcome. Everything I don't do, I don't do it for you.

"If we publish this, suddenly people will start taking the cryptography opinions of the TLSWG very seriously. This would definitely happen thanks of the decades of demonstrated good decision making."

if anything, i've found that the quality of his posts have gone down over time, i call this "doctorowification"

One of the things I've been working on recently.

rust `use` statements are a conspiracy by big merge conflict to sell more conflicts

Reporting a dead badger as a fly tipping incident

Life of a town councillor

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Here are some statistics (estimated via Poisson inference on the observed hit counts):

Keys generated: 2^34.5 (95% CI: 2^33.6–2^35.0)

Core-years: 56.7 (95% CI: 30.7–82.6)

Average cores: ~5,200 (95% CI: 2,800–7,500)

This is a lot, folks! Really grateful for this level of community support.

I think you might have to grapple with schannel being quite bad? Like TLS1.3 is not available on Windows 10 (still ~50% of Windows installs)

dependabot/renovate have a natural preference for ICU4X

Delighted to be recognised by @openuk.bsky.social for my recent open source work!

reqwest v0.13 - rustls by default reqwest v0.13 brings rustls by default, feature cleanup, but otherwise easy to upgrade.

To end the year, a new major version of #rustlang reqwest, v0.13.0 is out! 🚀

- This brings rustls by default, replacing native-tls. 🦀
- Some feature and method cleanup.
- But easy to upgrade for most everyone.

seanmonstar.com/blog/reqwest...

Rustls with Dirkjan and Joe Josh talk to Dirkjan and Joe about Rustls (pronounced rustles), a Rust-based TLS library. Dirkjan and Joe are developers on Rustls. We talk about the history that got us to this point. The many many c...

This week on #OpenSourceSecurity I chat with Dirkjan Ochtman and Joe Birr-Pixton about #Rustls. A lot has happened with Rustls in the last few years (and there's a lot more to come). Writing a TLS implementation is incredibly complicated, even when you don't have to worry about memory safety

Release v0.13.0-rc.1 · seanmonstar/reqwest 👀 Discussion here if you give it try, thanks! Main breaking changes rustls is now default instead of native-tls rustls provider defaults to aws-lc instead of ring (rustls-no-provider exists if you...

Just published a new #rustlang reqwest release candidate: v0.13.0-rc.1.

This has some breaking changes, the biggest was switching to rustls by default.

I'd appreciate if you gave it a spin 🙏

github.com/seanmonstar/...

Attempt to use a laptop with assistance of two colleagues

DSE assessment in shambles

Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled “Linux’s missing CRL infrastructure”. The article highlighted a number of key issues surrounding traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)...

Earlier this year, LWN.net featured an excellent article named "Linux's missing CRL infrastructure", and today
Canonical announced it will be working with me and @jbp.io over the coming weeks to start bridging the PKI infrastructure gap.

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/addressing...

Rustls Shortlisted for Two 2025 OpenUK Awards - The Rust Foundation The Rust Foundation is delighted to congratulate Rustls for being shortlisted in the Open Source Software and Security categories of the OpenUK Awards 2025 — and Joe Birr-Pixton, Rustls Creator, for…

With the @openuk.bsky.social Awards coming up, we’re excited that Rustls — a memory-safe TLS library — is shortlisted in two categories, and Creator Joe Birr-Pixton is also recognized individually.

The Rust Foundation is proud to support Rustls through the Rust Innovation Lab 🧡

my “we are not enron” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

heheheheh

lots of posts about unwrap(). not too many posts about simply not having your code and configuration meet for the very first time in production.