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Tuesday, October 13
 

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
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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

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
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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.Β 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 →
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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

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 β€” a corrective to the volunteer-burnout narrative.
Speakers
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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

17:30 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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