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Secure Messaging: Leveraging Rust to Create the Guardian’s Anonymous Whistleblowing System

Rust Foundation
RustConf 38:09 597 views

In an era where governments have the ability to eavesdrop on journalists and their sources through mass surveillance infrastructure, The Guardian developed Secure Messaging to provide a secure, anonymous, and easy-to-use initial contact mechanism. This presentation will detail how Rust language features were instrumental in building the system’s secure and performant backend services and how we made an inherently opaque system observable.

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