Dampening Vulnerabilities in Dapr: Security Audit of Dapr

In May and June of 2023, OSTIF and ADA Logics worked with the open source project Dapr on a holistic security audit. The Distributed Application Runtime (or Dapr) is a project for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. It is an easy, portable, and serverless way to build sustainable…

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OSTIF completes Security Audit of Crossplane- improved across the board!

Crossplane underwent a successful third party security audit by ADA Logics with the support of Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF). Used by firms such as JP Morgan, Time Warner, and MIT Lincoln Lab, the project is considered Incubating at CNCF. Over the first half of 2023, the multi-cloud control…

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OSTIF’s Security Audit of K-9 Mail is Complete!

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), K-9 Mail, and 7ASecurity collaborated on a security audit of the Mozilla K-9 email application. K-9 is an open source email application and runs on most Android phone systems. Ideally, the application is reliable, intuitive, and secure to use. Not only critical to Android…

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OSTIF’s Audit of Equinox P2 is Complete!

The Eclipse Foundation’s Equinox P2 was audited by Include Security in November 2022. Equinox P2 is a provisioning platform, started by IBM in 2001. The Eclipse Foundation was founded three years later to act as an open, non-for-profit leader of the Eclipse Project community.  OSTIF was contacted by the Foundation,…

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Our Audit of libjpeg-turbo is Complete!

OSTIF and X41 are excited to announce the completion of our security audit of libjpeg-turbo! X-41 DSec and OSTIF collaborated in May of 2023 on a source code audit of libjpeg-turbo, the accelerated JPEG image decoding software.  The audit’s emphasis was on reviewing input validation, memory management practices, and analysis…

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OSTIF’s Security Audit of Notation-duly Noted!

During the Spring of 2023, OSTIF, ADA Logics, and The Notary Project collaborated on a security audit of the new Notation libraries. Notation is a CLI project to add signatures as standard items in the registry ecosystem and to build a set of simple tooling for signing and verifying signatures. …

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Our audit of in-toto is complete!

In collaboration with X41 and in-toto, OSTIF is pleased to announce the publication of our audit of in-toto’s source code. In-toto, which has implementations in Python and Go, is a framework software for supply chain security. Integrating security and transparency through the entire process of application, in-toto’s holistic view of…

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