Google funds project to secure Apache web server project with new Rust component

Google is funding a project at the Internet Security Research Group to port a crucial component of the Apache HTTP web server project from the bug-prone C programming language to a safer alternative called Rust. The module in question is called mod_ssl and is the module responsible for supporting the cryptographic operations needed to establish HTTPS connections on an Apache web server.

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