I was under the impression that there was some kind of consensus around rust being one of the safest languages to use. However, I’ve seen comments about rust being bad pop up in a few threads lately but they never explain why they think so.
You’re talking about using the language and preventing errors. That’s less about security and more about preventing errors.
I’m talking about the supply chain, watering hole attacks, etc. Crates does not cryptographically verify the authenticity or anything that it downloads.
The only language that I’m aware of that has a dependency manager that has cryptographic auth of everything it downloads is Java’s Maven. Everything else is vulnerable, rust included.
Can you elaborate?
I was under the impression that there was some kind of consensus around rust being one of the safest languages to use. However, I’ve seen comments about rust being bad pop up in a few threads lately but they never explain why they think so.
You’re talking about using the language and preventing errors. That’s less about security and more about preventing errors.
I’m talking about the supply chain, watering hole attacks, etc. Crates does not cryptographically verify the authenticity or anything that it downloads.
The only language that I’m aware of that has a dependency manager that has cryptographic auth of everything it downloads is Java’s Maven. Everything else is vulnerable, rust included.