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• Rustls and the Rust Foundation's Rust Innovation Lab

  Published: September 3, 2025

  As you may have seen, Rustls is the first project in the Rust Foundation’s new Rust Innovation Lab program.

  Rustls is a project I started in May 2016 as I learned Rust. Since then it has grown from a casual project, to having multiple maintainers, hundreds of contributors, funded contributions, and finally multiple funded maintainers.

  As a project it has expanded to incorporate adjacent efforts, such as an OpenSSL-compatible API, a C API, deep integration into platform-specific certificate verifiers and integrations with important Rust ecosystem crates such as tokio and hyper.