White House is prioritizing secure internet routing, using memory safe languages
Briefly

"We've known for decades that the foundation of today's internet is not secure. We have seen instances where internet traffic was to be sent from a location in the domestic U.S. for another location in the domestic U.S. and it made a detour across the Pacific."
"This is an area where the federal government needs to pick up the pace. While Europe has already moved with around 70% of its IP space secured, the U.S. is only at around 40%."
"Shifting from languages like C or C++ to memory-safe ones like Go or Rust has been a key priority of the Biden administration as a way to avoid known bugs."
"The White House wants to advance BGP security through the adoption of security mechanisms known as Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), aiming for RPKI in place in more than 60% of the federal government’s advertised IP space by year-end."
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