Google's effort to mitigate memory-safety issues

The Google Security Blog carries anannouncement of a heightened effort to reimplement security-criticalsoftware in memory-safe languages. "The new Rust-based HTTP and TLSbackends for curl and now this new TLS library for Apache httpd are animportant starting point in this overall effort. These codebases sit at thegateway to the internet and their security is critical in the protection ofdata for millions of users worldwide."