Ask HN: What has happend to the Core Infrastructure Initiative?

2 points by usr1106 ↗ HN
When Heartbleed was disclosed in 2014 the industry woke up and noted that a lot of the Internet relies on old, unreviewed, and buggy code.

The Core Infrastructure Initiative was founded to fund audits and improvements to core open source components.

Looking at it 7 years later, not much seems to have happened.

The last announcement on https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/ is 3 years old and pretty vague.

The "full list of grants" linked to on https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/faq/ returns HTTP 404.

The Open Crypto Audit Project is said to have received a grant to audit the openssl code, but their home page https://opencryptoaudit.org/ has not been updated for 6 years and no results of the openssl audit are shown (if it ever happened).

Do we need the next heartbleed until the industry wakes up again for a short moment?

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