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Can somebody from LE explain why "Rust in the kernel" is a story for LE, rather than for Linux itself? Did LE e.g. do the coding? or help? is this a cross-product activity? LE is a system for bootstrapping CA certification, Rust in the kernel is a generalized memory/systems security & safety coding activity.

Not that it isn't good, but "why talk about it in a letsencrypt end of year message" -is this the wider "we" at play, or was there something specific I missed?

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It's because it's not just a Let's Encrypt end-of-year message: it's an ISRG (Internet Security Research Group) end-of-year message. ISRG runs multiple projects, including both Let's Encrypt and Prossimo. Prossimo is all about using memory-safe languages to replace critical memory-unsafe code, and Prossimo funded a significant chunk of the work to get Rust into the Linux kernel.

Thanks! good explanation.

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