2024 was the 9th year of OSTIF, and what an exciting and groundbreaking year it was! Our annual report for 2024 starts with the OSTIF story then moves onto our impact, function, partnerships, funding, and future. We didn’t mince words here- it’s a quick read of less than five minutes.…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Fastify. Fastify is an open source overhead web framework for Node.js, which prioritizes speed while maintaining expansibility and approachability. This audit was possible through the efforts of Ada Logics and the support of the OpenJS Foundation. Audit Process: First…
“Audits cost too much” We’ve seen what happens in the open source ecosystem when audits are deferred – those vulnerabilities assumed to not exist are discovered, and the aftermath is a project, community, and entire ecosystem in shambles. If you ask those authors if they made the right choice deferring…
Why OSTIF? There’s a lot of misconceptions that cause stagnation when it comes to procuring and participating in security audits. How does one even begin to get an audit, much less fund it? There is too much work involved, and not enough help from the auditors. It’s just a way…
The Sovereign Tech Fund and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) are collaborating upon multiple security reviews for open source projects. As part of STF’s Bug Resilience Program, we are organizing and providing projects that are rooted in infrastructure with audits and engagements to reduce their open and undiscovered…
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…
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…