The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security engagement on Developing ECH for OpenSSL (“DEfO”). DEfO is an open source implementation of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) for OpenSSL, and provides proof-of-concept implementations for various clients and servers that use OpenSSL as a demonstration…
For the past 4 years, OSTIF has run a Managed Audit Program for the CNCF. We’ve audited 33 projects in that time, working with maintainers all over the world to reinforce the security health of cloud native open source for billions of end users. Security audits are an effective, sustainable…
OSTIF is a proud participant in the Sovereign Tech Agency's Sovereign Tech Resilience Program. Outside of that work, we've also been funded to carried out ad hoc security engagements on critical open source software. Funding security solutions that are quantifiable, sustainable, and verifiable is an important part of the Sovereign…
Peter has worked with OSTIF twice on both our audits of CRI-O. We have been so lucky as to see first hand Peter’s expertise, attention to detail, and love of open source during our mutual engagements. Individuals like Peter are the backbone of the open source community and industry, and…
2025 marked the 10th year of OSTIF. This year, we published 24 audits, worked on behalf of almost 50 projects, and partnered with 10 different funding bodies to create security outcomes for open source projects. As a result, 231 findings with security impact have been reported and over 98% of…
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…
By Adam Korczynski and David Korczynski of Ada Logics In late 2024, Alpha-Omega partnered with Ada Logics and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to audit 25 widely used open source projects in the AI and large language model (LLM) ecosystem. This initiative aimed at evaluating the overall security…
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 team at OSTIF is honored and excited to announce that for a fifth consecutive year we are a recipient of the DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations Program. The privilege of receiving this donation a fifth time is not lost on us, and reinforces that our mission is being carried out effectively…
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…