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The OpenSSL Conference is the global meeting place for the people who build, deploy, govern, and rely on secure digital infrastructure. It brings together developers, security engineers, researchers, policymakers, enterprises, legal and compliance professionals, and community contributors, all united by a shared commitment to stronger open-source security.
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Tuesday, October 13
 

09:00 CEST

Conference Opening
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Welcome to Prague! We open the second edition of the OpenSSL Conference with a brief hello, a few practical notes for the days ahead, and an introduction of the people leading OpenSSL Corporation today.
Speakers
MZ

Magda Zdunkiewicz

OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Talk

09:05 CEST

Welcome to the OpenSSL Conference 2026
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST
The OpenSSL Conference brings together the people who build, deploy, govern, and rely on secure digital infrastructure. In this opening session we set the stage for the three days ahead: what's new since Edition Nº 1, how the programme is organized across its four rooms, and what we hope you take home from Prague.
Speakers
avatar for Anton Arapov

Anton Arapov

Director, OpenSSL Corporation
Anton Arapov is a Director of the OpenSSL Corporation, where he manages both strategic direction and day-to-day operations. He has a background in software development and services, which he applies to improving processes, increasing efficiency, and supporting innovation. Anton is... Read More →
avatar for Tim Hudson

Tim Hudson

Dev Team, OpenSSL
Tim Hudson has been involved in system security for more than 20 years. Tim's day job is as the CTO at Cryptsoft where he provides advice and guidance on security technology design and architecture. Tim is involved in KMIP, PKCS#11, FIPS140, OASIS and SNIA and is a long time OpenSSL... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST
Room 1
  Keynote, Keynote

09:20 CEST

Cisco — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:20 - 09:50 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Speakers
JF

Jonathan Felten

VP Engineering - Foundational Security Technologies, Cisco
Jonathan Felten is Vice President of Engineering in Cisco's Security and Trust Organization. He leads the Foundational Security Technology teams, which design, develop, and deploy security technologies and cryptographic services across Cisco's product and solution portfolio. With... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:20 - 09:50 CEST
Room 1
  Keynote, Keynote

09:50 CEST

Three Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:50 - 10:50 CEST
Thirty years ago, SSLeay — the library that became OpenSSL Library — was born from the work of Eric A. Young and Tim Hudson. In this conversation, moderated by Magda Zdunkiewicz, they join Matt Caswell to reflect on how a two-person project became critical global infrastructure, the lessons of three decades, and where OpenSSL Library goes from here.
Speakers
MC

Matt Caswell

Executive Director, OpenSSL Foundation
Matt Caswell is Executive Director and Principal Software Engineer at the OpenSSL Foundation, where he has been a core developer for over a decade. He has contributed to every layer of the libssl codebase and is a subject matter expert on OpenSSL's TLS implementation, with particular... Read More →
avatar for Tim Hudson

Tim Hudson

Dev Team, OpenSSL
Tim Hudson has been involved in system security for more than 20 years. Tim's day job is as the CTO at Cryptsoft where he provides advice and guidance on security technology design and architecture. Tim is involved in KMIP, PKCS#11, FIPS140, OASIS and SNIA and is a long time OpenSSL... Read More →
EA

Eric A. Young

The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
MZ

Magda Zdunkiewicz

OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:50 - 10:50 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Panel

10:50 CEST

Bouncy Castle — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Speakers
avatar for David Hook

David Hook

VP Software Engineering, Bouncy Castle
David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

11:20 CEST

Rebranding OpenSSL FIPS 140-3 Validations from a Laboratory Perspective
Tuesday October 13, 2026 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Why a vendor would rebrand the OpenSSL FIPS Provider, what the rebranded certificate allows, and alternatives (full validation, binding).
Speakers
JP

Jonathan Park

Associate FIPS Tester, Lightship Security, Inc
Jonathan (Jon) Park is an Associate FIPS Tester with Lightship Security Inc. and brings more than 25 years of experience in IT, project support, and compliance testing. Leveraging a strong background in technology operations and quality assurance, he now focuses on cybersecurity testing... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

12:00 CEST

Lunch
Tuesday October 13, 2026 12:00 - 13:10 CEST
Tuesday October 13, 2026 12:00 - 13:10 CEST
All Rooms
  Break
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13:20 CEST

Quantum Optics Jena — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 13:20 - 13:50 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the sponsor and will be published here as soon as they are available. About Quantum Optics Jena: Quantum Optics Jena, founded in 2020, is putting the future of secure communication in the hands of quantum physics. As a world-leading provider of entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD), we deliver complete systems, components, and integration services that bring real quantum advantage to IT networks. Our product ELVIS takes this mission further: quantum-secure encryption — everytime, everywhere for everyone. Because true security shouldn't be a privilege, it should be a given.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 13:20 - 13:50 CEST
Room 1
  Business, Talk

13:50 CEST

Securosys — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Speakers
avatar for Marcel Dasen

Marcel Dasen

Executive Vice President of Engineering, Securosys
Throughout his career, Marcel has amassed a comprehensive skill set in engineering, applied cryptography, and technical leadership. He is an expert in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and high-performance systems, with a deep understanding of the latest trends and best... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

14:20 CEST

Beyond the Checkbox: How Product Certifications Drive Ongoing Security Strategy and Market Access
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Beyond the Checkbox will show how product certifications can become a strategic advantage instead of just a compliance burden. Using real-world examples, you'll see how to reduce engineering effort through smarter operating models, reuse and maintenance paths, lab partnerships, and automation and AI, while keeping rigor intact as requirements like PQC and entropy continue to evolve. You'll leave with practical ideas to make your certification program more efficient, strategic, and valuable to the business.
Speakers
LR

Lisa Rogers

Product Certification, NetApp, Inc.
Lisa Rogers is a Technical Program Manager at NetApp, with more than 12 years of experience leading certifications including FIPS 140, Common Criteria, CSfC, DoDIN APL, FedRAMP, HITRUST, EUCC, 508 VPAT, Ready Logo, USGv6, and related frameworks. She partners with engineering, legal... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

14:50 CEST

Afternoon Tea
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:20 CEST
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:20 CEST
All Rooms
  Break
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15:20 CEST

Why have the PQC standards taken so long? Bottlenecks, bickering, and building momentum
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
NIST published ML-KEM/ML-DSA/SLH-DSA in Aug 2024, yet stable specs for TLS, email, code signing remain elusive. This panel explores why and what the community can do.
Speakers
MO

Mike Ounsworth

Lead open source maintainer, Cryptic Forest Software
Mike Ounsworth is a software security architect and cryptographic protocol designer. He is deeply involved in the Post-Quantum transition, particularly in re-designing IETF networking protocols to accommodate the new PQC algorithms, dual-algorithm hybrids, and mechanisms to ease migration... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

15:20 CEST

The EU CRA vs. Community: Why You’re Safe, and How Stewards Help
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
The CRA is the first horizontal law to recognise open source in the commercial supply chain. An opportunity to standardise and elevate security; how stewards help.
Speakers
avatar for Jaroslav Řezník

Jaroslav Řezník

Program Manager, Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
Jaroslav is the Principal Program Manager guiding standards and regulatory initiatives for Red Hat's Product Security Compliance team. His 18-year tenure is defined by his unique versatility: he is as dedicated to his beloved Fedora open-source community as he is to ensuring Red Hat... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 3
  Security, Talk

15:20 CEST

Hybrid FIPS module using OpenSSL code: the Kryoptic project
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Building an ultra-portable FIPS module: motivations, options, Rust+C challenges, why Kryoptic implements PKCS#11.
Speakers
avatar for Simo Sorce

Simo Sorce

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat, LLC
Simo Sorce is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat based in New York,
where he has served as the RHEL Crypto Team Lead for many years. While he was a founder of the FreeIPA and SSSD projects and a long-time member of the Samba Team, his work now centers on the architectural security and cryptographic integrity of the platform. He maintains core cryptographic
... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

15:20 CEST

Open Quantum Safe: Post-Quantum software research in the era of the first PQC standards
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project's mission and role supporting the PQC transition in the era of the first PQ standards.
Speakers
RM

Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma

Senior Cryptography Researcher, Indra Sistemas de Comunicaciones Seguras / Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Rodrigo is a Senior Cryptography Researcher at Indra Sistemas de Comunicaciones Seguras, with experience both in pre-quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography, his area of expertise. He is also an Industrial PhD candidate, focused on the algebraic aspects of PQC, specifically Algebraic... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

16:05 CEST

During a Breach: How Encryption is Evaluated by Regulators, Insurers, and Counsel
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:45 CEST
How encryption is assessed by regulators, cyber insurers, and legal counsel after a data security incident, and how those assessments shape legal exposure.
Speakers
AM

Amanda McAllister Novak

Senior Counsel, Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
Amanda is a cybersecurity and privacy attorney focused on incident response and regulatory compliance. She advises organizations on complex data security incidents, including ransomware attacks and business email compromises, as well as compliance with a wide range of data protection... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:45 CEST
Room 3
  Security, Talk

16:05 CEST

Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
PQC transition exposes a lack of structural crypto agility. A panel on forging a common crypto API across the ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for David Hook

David Hook

VP Software Engineering, Bouncy Castle
David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in... Read More →
avatar for Mike Kushner

Mike Kushner

Senior Product Architect, Keyfactor
Mike Kushner is a Senior Product Architect at Keyfactor and a longtime contributor to EJBCA, one of the world's leading open-source PKI platforms. A self-described "certificate nurturer," Mike brings deep expertise in public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, and cryptographic lifecycle... Read More →
DV

Dr. Vladimir Soukharev

VP, Cryptographic Technology, Keyfactor
Vladimir Soukharev, Ph.D., is a cryptographer specializing in post-quantum security and the broader cryptographic landscape. He earned his doctorate at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, focusing on elliptic curve cryptography under Professor... Read More →
MS

Murugiah Souppaya

Distinguished Technologist, HP Security Lab
Murugiah Souppaya is a Distinguished Technologist at HP Security Lab, where he leads strategic advanced development projects to help customers adopt state of the art endpoint security capabilities to further enterprise zero trust and security outcomes. He collaborates with HP’s... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Panel

16:05 CEST

Merkle Tree Certificate Proofs - How Merkle Trees and Merkle Subtrees are used in MTC's
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
An overview of Merkle Trees, Merkle subtrees, and Merkle tree proofs from Merkle Tree Certificates.
Speakers
BB

Bob Beck

Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
Bob was born in the USA, with his parents escaping to Canada in a balloon during the Nixon Regime. He gained much unix experience at an early age and a fasicnation with fiddling with network stacks led tohis finding of a used SparcStation in the early 90's, When NetBSD did not run... Read More →
AD

Andrew Dinh

Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
Andrew is a smart guy who is Bob's co-conspirator for these talks. this bio needs to be fixed by Andrew.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Room 2
  Technical, Talk

16:05 CEST

OpenSSL's TLS Implementation: Inside the State Machine and Record Layer
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
OpenSSL's TLS stack is used by billions of devices. This talk explains the TLS state machine (ssl/statem/) and record layer from first principles, tracing a full TLS 1.3 handshake through the code.
Speakers
MC

Matt Caswell

Executive Director, OpenSSL Foundation
Matt Caswell is Executive Director and Principal Software Engineer at the OpenSSL Foundation, where he has been a core developer for over a decade. He has contributed to every layer of the libssl codebase and is a subject matter expert on OpenSSL's TLS implementation, with particular... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

17:00 CEST

Verifiable Builds in Untrusted Clouds
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Using confidential computing to establish verifiable build pipelines that assure trusted source and an uncompromised build environment.
Speakers
RM

Rene Malmgren

CTO, Flowrate
René Malmgren is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience in secure systems, cryptography, and software engineering. He specializes in the design and implementation of hyper-secure development environments, trusted computing architectures, and high-assurance... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4
  Business, Talk

17:00 CEST

Who Pays for Open Source? A First-Party Answer from the OpenSSL Corporation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
OpenSSL's contributor record shows the library is written overwhelmingly by paid engineers — a corrective to the volunteer-burnout narrative.
Speakers
KS

Kajal Sapkota

Business Development Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
Kajal Sapkota is Business Development Manager and Commercial Lead at OpenSSL Corporation, where she manages its funding: support contracts and partnerships across roughly one hundred organizations. She also leads sponsor relations for the OpenSSL Conference and has worked across marketing... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

17:00 CEST

Instrumenting OpenSSL with Crypto-Auditing Probes for Post-Quantum Readiness
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
The crypto-auditing project: dynamically auditing cryptographic operations in production for PQC readiness where static analysis fails.
Speakers
avatar for Daiki Ueno

Daiki Ueno

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 3
  Security, Talk

17:00 CEST

Privacy Is Not the Enemy! What Law Enforcement Misunderstands and What Cryptographers Can Do About It
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Doctoral research on threat actors in online gaming targeting children, and why law enforcement wrongly views privacy as the problem.
Speakers
DK

Dr. Katrina Khanta, D.Sc.

Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, The Cyber Doctor
Dr. Katrina Khanta is a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at The Cyber Doctor and is based in the Washington DC area. She possesses a background in International Relations and Chinese, where she began her career writing grants for global initiatives to combating human trafficking, work... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

17:30 CEST

The Perfect Storm: Why Tech Is the Next Target for Destructive Regulation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Public anxiety over AI, breaches, disinformation and dysfunctional legislatures create conditions for reactive, poorly designed tech regulation.
Speakers
DY

Daniella Y Taveau

Chair of the Board, OASIS-Open
Daniella Taveau is the Founder of Bold Text Strategies and, as of September 2025, Chair of the Board for OASIS-Open. She is an internationally recognized expert in government affairs, global trade, regulation, and complex business strategy, with deep experience across international... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 3
  Security, Talk

17:30 CEST

1 Module 3 Transitions
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
The end of FIPS 140-2, migration to 140-3, coming algorithm deprecations, and policy-based crypto-agility toward 2035 PQC.
Speakers
JM

Jake Maynard

Director of Engineering, SafeLogic
Jake Maynard has been in the Cyber Security industry for over twenty years. He spent over 17 years with Citrix Systems (Sponsor of OpenSSL’s 2.x FIPS canister) working on Networking, Mobile Device Management, and Virtualization technologies ultimately landing in the security engineering... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

17:30 CEST

KeyPair Consulting — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Speakers
JH

Joshua Hill

KeyPair Consulting
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

17:30 CEST

Lessons learned on proper cryptographic hygiene in Rust
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Rust language features for crypto: type safety, no_std, and why the optimizer breaks constant-time even for careful code.
Speakers
MO

Mike Ounsworth

Lead open source maintainer, Cryptic Forest Software
Mike Ounsworth is a software security architect and cryptographic protocol designer. He is deeply involved in the Post-Quantum transition, particularly in re-designing IETF networking protocols to accommodate the new PQC algorithms, dual-algorithm hybrids, and mechanisms to ease migration... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 2
  Technical, Talk
 
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