Mike Bursell

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I've been in and around Open Source since around 1997, and have been running (GNU) Linux as my main desktop at home and work since then: not always easy... I'm a security bod and architect, co-founder of the Enarx project, and am currently CEO of a start-up in the Confidential Computing space. I have a blog - "Alice, Eve & Bob" - where I write (sometimes rather parenthetically) about security. I live in the UK and like single malts.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award Emerging Contributor Award 2018 Author DevOps Cloud Gamer Linux Geek Contributor Club

Authored Content

My top 7 functions in Rust

Rust helpfully provides a set of "prelude" functions.

What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux

When a trusted boot process is performed, the process not only measures each value but also performs a check against a known (and expected!) good value at the same time.

My top 7 keywords in Rust

Learn a handful of useful keywords from the Rust standard library.

8 ways not to do open source

Avoid these mistakes when creating an open source project.

Is Occupy Wall St. really an "open source protest?"

Why we open sourced our security project

It’s not just coding that we do in the open.

What you need to know about hash functions

It should be computationally implausible to work backwards from the output hash to the input.

Authored Comments

MikeCamel

10 Jun 2020

Why I switched from Java to Rust

Too early to say, I think. The particular project I was working on _was_ faster in Rust than Java, but I hesitate to pull any more general conclusions from just that!

MikeCamel

10 Jun 2020

Why I switched from Java to Rust

Richard -

Thanks for the comment. Small scale companies ... or open source projects. It's easier, certainly, to start something new in a new language. And you say "small companies" - Microsoft is shifting to Rust. It takes time, of course, but sometimes the benefits are so great that movement can happen.

-Mike.