The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Kea. Kea is an open source project developed by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). Described in the audit report as a “modular DHCP server framework… for assigning IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and distributing…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Thunderbird Send. Thunderbird Send is an open source platform for sending and receiving end to end encrypted files, for use with Mozilla Thunderbird or web browsers. With the help of 7ASecurity and the…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin core, the reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, is an open source cryptocurrency with assets valued at several billion USD. With the help of Quarkslab, Brink, and Chaincode Labs, this…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of our security audit of KubeVirt. KubeVirt is short for Kubernetes Virtualization, as the project is an API and runtime for managing virtual machines. With the help of Quarkslab and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), this…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of OpenSSF Scorecard. OpenSSF Scorecard is an open source automated testing resource to help projects continually assess security risks. With the help of ADA Logics and the OpenSSF, this project can continue to provide…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of GNU libmicrohttpd2. GNU libmicrohttpd2 is an open source library that “embeds a HTTP or HTTPS daemon into host applications.”* With the help of ADA Logics and the Sovereign Tech Agency, this project has…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of our documentation audit of PHP. Specifically, the open source implementation of the interpreter for the PHP scripting language, which is popular in use for web development. As a result of this collaboration with OSTIF, Quarkslab, and…
Over the duration of multiple programs with funders, we’ve heard firsthand their needs. Executives know they have the budget and desire to fund security, but need help with how to start generating outcomes. To create and sustain open source security programs requires dedicated administration work, experience with the open source…
The open source community has been abuzz for the past two years about European governance in open source software. From casual meetups to professional conferences, the implication of government funding and regulation of the free-use software sector has resulted in heavily debated discourse around the legal, financial, societal, and functional…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of OpenEXR, a project at the Academy Software Foundation. OpenEXR is an open source specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, which “accurately and efficiently represents high-dynamic-range scene-linear image data,” (https://openexr.com/en/latest/). With…