We have been working with the team over at the Flux project on a security review and improving their tooling. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation contacted us a few months ago and wanted to facilitate both improving the testing infrastructure and to manually review Flux's source code. We selected ADA…
Announcement: Google is partnering with Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc to sponsor security reviews of critical open source software. OSTIF is elated to announce that we are planning to improve security of eight open-source projects thanks to support from the Google Open Source Security Team. This marks a major…
The Linux Foundation sought a review of the kernel teams’ processes for release signing and for the policies and procedures for the handling of the signing keys. Working with OSTIF, Trail of Bits was selected to lead the project and a two person-week review was conducted. Unlike most OSTIF projects,…
The Linux Foundation has sponsored a review of the Linux Kernel's practices and policies around how security vulnerabilities are reported to the kernel team, how those reports are processed and addressed, and how those vulnerabilities are disclosed to the public. OSTIF, working with the team at Atredis Partners and a…
The Linux Foundation's Public Health (LFPH) initiative has sponsored audits of two COVID-19 exposure notification apps, COVID Shield and COVID Green. As part of their stewardship of these projects, the Linux Foundation decided that it would be prudent to perform due diligence by reviewing the design and code of the…
OSTIF, working with the Monero Community, the Monero development team, Monero Research Lab and Sweetwater Asset Consulting, has completed our latest security review of Monero CLSAG. Concise Linkable Spontaneous Anonymous Group signatures are a new variant of Monero's current MLSAG (Multilayered Linkable Spontaneous Anonymous Group signature) scheme. Overall, it promises…
First, we'd like to thank everyone in the community who donated to the cause and made this happen. Our crucial work does not happen without donations from people who care about our cause. If security and privacy on the web matter to you, there's a huge number of ways to…
As always, remember that our work only happens with the support of our sponsors and the community. Consider donating to the cause and getting the companies that you work at and patronize to get involved. We are always short on funding and more money always means more research. Special thank…
We would like to thank our sponsors Private Internet Access and DuckDuckGo for helping to fund this security review, as well as all of our donors and individual supporters. This crucial work doesn’t happen without support from the community. The quick and dirty: OpenSSL version 1.1.1 was evaluated with special foci on new TLS…
Bulletproofs are a specific type of range proof based on new cryptography by Benedikt Bunz et al. Bulletproofs are a trustless proofs setup that are substantially smaller than the current Borromean style range proofs that were previously used, which reduces the size of Monero transactions by 80-90%. Monero’s latest network update,…