Jack O'Connor

From Rust to C and Back Again (slides) - an introduction to "foreign functions"

Rust can Compete with Python (slides) - considering Rust when speed doesn't matter

A First Look at Lifetimes in Rust

Unsafe Rust is not C - tricky pointer aliasing rules in both languages

A Firehose of Rust (slides) - references, aliasing, and move semantics for folks coming from C++

Two Attacks on Naive Tree Hashes - a couple things you need to know if you roll your own crypto

Smart Pointers Can't Solve Use-After-Free - a limitation of Modern C++

How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better

Async Rust in Three Parts - building an async runtime "from the sky down"

• Introduction
• Part One: Futures
• Part Two: Tasks
• Part Three: IO

Object Soup is Made of Indexes - how to do shared, mutable objects the Rust way

Safety and Soundness in Rust

The SHA-256 Project - from teaching Applied Cryptography at NYU Tandon

BLAKE3 - a general-purpose cryptographic hash function, fast everywhere

• paper
• Python bindings
• the b3sum --check doc
• 6502 assembly
• Bessie - a general-purpose, misuse-discouraging cipher based on BLAKE3
• BLAKE3-AEAD - a TLS-oriented cipher based on BLAKE3
• Cryptography FM interview
• Saito Social interview

Bao - a verified streaming tool based on BLAKE3

• presentation at Rust NYC (slides), from before the BLAKE3 changes were made

peru - a build tool that fetches other people's code in a reproducible way

duct.py - a Python library for running child processes

• the Gotchas Doc

duct.rs - a Rust version of the same

os_pipe.rs - a Rust library for opening OS pipes

shared_child.rs - a Rust library for managing child processes from multiple threads

• shared_thread.rs - similar but for managing threads

blake2_simd - a Rust implementation of BLAKE2b/s/bp/sp