Google Uses AI and Rust to Rewrite Critical C Dependencies
Google security engineers Bastian Kersting and Max Hils have validated a novel method for eliminating legacy memory vulnerabilities by using Gemini to translate C codebases into memory-safe Rust. Focusing on giflib—a 3,000-line image-processing library that handles untrusted input without sandboxing—the team delivered an ABI-compatible drop-in Rust library, removed process isolation sandboxes, maintained runtime performance, and … Read more