Pass the SALT 2026

Bim bam PAM! In this talk, we’re diving into the kitchen of system security to look at the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) architecture.

We’ll start by deconstructing the classic PAM lifecycle. But instead of just "wrapping" the C API in Rust and hoping for the best, we’ll introduce nonstick. The secret sauce? We will demonstrate how nonstick uses Rust's design to encode the PAM expected behavior directly into the compiler.