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Tuesday, October 13
 

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

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

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

17:30 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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