Memory Safety and Modernizing Python's Cryptography Ecosystem with Alex Gaynor
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Memory Safety and Modernizing Python's Cryptography Ecosystem with Alex Gaynor
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Alex Gaynor, long-time open source contributor and core developer of Django, PyPy, and Python's cryptography library, joins us to discuss the challenging transition from C to Rust in the Python ecosystem. We explore memory safety vulnerabilities like buffer overflows, the technical and community challenges of introducing Rust to a major Python library, and how to navigate hostile feedback during controversial changes. Alex shares lessons from shipping the first Rust-based cryptography release, managing platform compatibility issues, and why sometimes breaking backwards compatibility is necessary to move an ecosystem forward.
A must-listen for anyone maintaining critical open source infrastructure or dealing with the "gross" realities of pushing technological boundaries.
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/
For a video version of this podcast, check out https://youtu.be/FQayBHWVsQA.
The GR-OSS OUT Podcast is produced by Ben Wiley.
Special Guest: Alex Gaynor.