https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/authors/samuel-moelius/Recent content in Samuel Moelius on The Trail of Bits BlogHugoen-usTue, 10 Jan 2023 08:00:32 -0500https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2023/01/10/open-source-contributions-2022/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:00:32 -0500https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2023/01/10/open-source-contributions-2022/This time last year, we wrote about the more than 190 Trail of Bits-authored pull requests that were merged into non-Trail of Bits repositories in 2021. In 2022, we continued that trend by having more than 400 pull requests merged into non-Trail of Bits repositories! Why is this significant? While we take […]https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2021/11/11/motivating-global-stabilization/Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:39:56 -0500https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2021/11/11/motivating-global-stabilization/Originally published on October 12, 2021 Consensus protocols have come to play a critical role in many applications. Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson’s classic impossibility result showed that under reasonable assumptions, it can be impossible for a protocol to reach consensus. In Dwork, Lynch, and Stockmeyer’s paper “Consensus in the Presence […]https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2021/11/09/write-rust-lints-without-forking-clippy/Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:30:40 -0500https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2021/11/09/write-rust-lints-without-forking-clippy/Originally published May 20, 2021 This blog post introduces Dylint, a tool for loading Rust linting rules (or “lints”) from dynamic libraries. Dylint makes it easy for developers to maintain their own personal lint collections. Previously, the simplest way to write a new Rust lint was to fork Clippy, Rust’s […]