Internet freedom with the Open Technology FundTrail of Bits cares about internet freedom, and one of our most valued partners in pursuit of that goal is the Open Technology Fund (OTF). Our core values involve focusing on high-impact work, including work with a positive social impact. The OTF’s Red Team Lab […]
How to introduce Semgrep to your organizationSemgrep, a static analysis tool for finding bugs and specific code patterns in more than 30 languages, is set apart by its ease of use, many built-in rules, and the ability to easily create custom rules. We consider it an essential automated tool for discovering security issues in a […]
Securing open-source infrastructure with OSTIFThe Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) counters an often overlooked challenge in the open-source world: the same software projects that uphold today’s internet infrastructure are reliant on, in OSTIF’s words, a “surprisingly small group of people with a limited amount of time” for all development, testing, and maintenance. This scarcity of contributor time in […]
Tag, you’re it: Signal tagging in CircomWe at Trail of Bits perform security reviews for a seemingly endless stream of applications that use zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. While fast new arithmetization and folding libraries like Halo2, Plonky2, and Boojum are rapidly gaining adoption, Circom remains a mainstay of ZK circuit design. We’ve written about Circom safety before in the […]
