OpenSSL Conference 2026

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09:50 CEST

Three Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation

Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:50 - 10:50 CEST

Room 1

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

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 →

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 →