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09:00 CEST
OpenSSL Corporation Keynote
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 CEST
Speakers
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:00 - 09:30
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Room 1
09:30 CEST
From Zero to Hero: A Student's Journey Contributing to Production Cryptography
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 CEST
Speakers SE
MSc Computer Science (University of Konstanz), Independent
I am currently student at the university of Konstanz (Germany) and writing my masters thesis in collaboration with IBM about some improvement of a IBM-Z specific OpenSSL functionality. I actually studied to be a teacher, but in the end found my interest in Crypto.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:45
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Room 4
09:30 CEST
Nobody Told Maintainers They Were Saving The World. Now Is The Time.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Speakers RZ
Red Hat
Roman is a cybersecurity expert and leader with 20+ years of experience securing complex systems and products. As Principal Architect at Red Hat, he drives open-source security strategy and cross-industry collaboration. Formerly, he led Product Security & Privacy for Data Center and...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00
CEST
Room 1
09:30 CEST
Shipping OpenSSL downstream and its challenge
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Speakers PM
Software Engineer - Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Software Engineer at SUSEkey member of the Cryptography Group. As a dedicated maintainer of OpenSSL and other cryptographic libraries. His work also involves participating in FIPS certification rounds for SUSE, where he focuses on the implementation of FIPS requirements...
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Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Computer scientist with experience in PKI, protocols, and cryptography. Maintainer for SUSE.
AY
Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Embedded engineer, transitioned to maintaining cryptographic libraries at SUSE.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00
CEST
Room 3
09:30 CEST
A library-agnostic hybrid classic/PQ OpenSSL provider — built with AI
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Speakers MB
Independent
Michael Baentsch is the original author and long-time maintainer of oqs-provider, the OpenSSL provider that brought experimental post-quantum cryptography to OpenSSL via liboqs. He presented oqs-provider at the OpenSSL Conference 2025 in Prague; this talk covers the follow-up he proposed...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00
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Room 2
09:45 CEST
Securing the Next Generation: An OpenSSL Youth Outreach Strategy
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
Speakers CJ
-, Individual
Carla Jedani is a lawyer, founder and researcher. She is the founder of a civic engagement platform for Gen Z built on open source, open data and federated governance principles. Her published work reflects more than two decades of engagement with open source principles and their...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:45 - 10:00
CEST
Room 4
10:00 CEST
Morning Tea
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 CEST
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:00 - 10:30
CEST
All Rooms
10:30 CEST
TLS keyshare caching for faster handshakes
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Speakers PK
Principal Security Engineer, AWS
Panos is a Principal Security Engineer at AWS. He has experience with cybersecurity, applied cryptography, security automation, and vulnerability management. He has coauthored publications on cybersecurity and participated in various security standards bodies to provide common interoperable...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00
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Room 1
10:30 CEST
From Copilot to Commit: Handling AI-Generated Code in Open Source Crypto Libraries
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Speakers DL
Partner, Osborne Clarke GmbH & Co KG
Dr Lina Böcker is a technology lawyer specialising in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) compliance, IT law and AI regulation. She advises software vendors, open source projects, OEMs and research institutions on licence compliance, contributor workflows and “safe” use of AI-assisted...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00
CEST
Room 2
10:30 CEST
Finding Timing Side Channels When Internal Clocks Are Hidden
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Speakers VH
PhD candidate, Masaryk University
I am a PhD candidate and security researcher at Masaryk University and a member of the Center for Research on Cryptography and Security (CRoCS), specializing in cryptography, security analysis, and secure system design. My research focuses on the security of cryptographic implementations...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00
CEST
Room 4
10:30 CEST
How small can you (reasonably) get an ML-DSA and ML-KEM implementation?
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Speakers MO
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00
CEST
Room 3
11:00 CEST
11:00 CEST
11:00 CEST
Self-Encrypting Disks in Linux - Fast, Expensive, and Mostly Harmless
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Speakers MB
Research & Development Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
A grumpy developer and researcher in the area of storage security. Linux cryptsetup and LUKS maintainer. For more info see https://mbroz.fedorapeople.org/talks/
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30
CEST
Room 2
11:00 CEST
Where Post-Quantum Migration Hurts a Wi-Fi IoT Endpoint
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Speakers MP
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology
Ing.
Martin Perešíni, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Communication Systems Group (CSG) at the Department of Informatics (IFI), University of Zurich. He recently defended his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, where he works with the BlockSec@FIT...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30
CEST
Room 4
11:30 CEST
Bill Buchanan — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Speakers
Professor of Applied Cryptography, Edinburgh Napier University
William (Bill) J Buchanan OBE FRSE is a Professor of Applied Cryptography in the School of Computing, Edinburgh and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. He is a Fellow of the BCS and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. Bill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00
CEST
Room 1
11:30 CEST
Engineering Reality of CRA Compliance for Linux-based IoT Solutions
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Speakers MK
Solutions and Business Development, Tropic Square s.r.o.
I’m a technical business and solutions developer with more than 20 years of experience in embedded security, with expertise across PayTV and IoT solutions for both startups and corporates. I work at the intersection of secure boot, firmware signing, trusted updates, cryptography...
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Head of Product, Tropic Square s.r.o.
Pavel Polach is a product and engineering leader focused on secure technologies, embedded systems, and developer platforms. At Tropic Square, he led SDK and application development for secure hardware, balancing developer usability with technical robustness. In recent months, he transitioned...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00
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Room 4
11:30 CEST
Is the current cryptography testing and validation pipeline process capable of handling the impending Tsunami?
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Speakers SG
Co-founder and CTO/CPO, Katalyst LLC
During his 25 years at Apple, Shawn drove the engineering work for Apple Platform Security Certifications and built Apple Inc.'s SECLAB (NVLAP accredited, first-party Crypto Testing and Validation Lab) while also delivering on the roles of lab manager, tooling architect/developer...
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Co-founder and CEO, Katalyst LLC
Jasmine is a natural born leader. Her passion for connecting with people is unrivaled and she is known as the "Great Connector". She has a gift for making fast and lifelong friends, on elevators, planes, and of course at conferences. Jasmine launched two healthcare startups in the...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00
CEST
Room 3
11:30 CEST
HSM-Backed OpenPGP Signing for OpenSSL Releases: Architecture and Operations
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Speakers DM
DevOps Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
Dmitry Misharov is a Senior DevOps Engineer at OpenSSL Corporation, working on the infrastructure behind OpenSSL: release automation, the HSM-backed signing pipeline, and performance testing infrastructure. Dmitry designed and built the release-signing migration this talk covers...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00
CEST
Room 2
12:00 CEST
Lunch
Wednesday October 14, 2026 12:00 - 13:10 CEST
Wednesday October 14, 2026 12:00 - 13:10
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All Rooms
13:20 CEST
The State of the OpenSSL Community
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 13:50 CEST
Speakers
Communities Manager, OpenSSL Foundation
Jon Ericson is the OpenSSL Foundation Communities Manager. He started his career as a C programmer for the US National Weather Service and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When Stack Overflow launched in beta, Jon was an early contributor and later joined as a full-time community...
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Community Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 13:50
CEST
Room 2
13:20 CEST
Advancing Clarity Through Collaboration
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Speakers TW
Security Reserch Engineer Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, Inc
Tricia Wolff is a Security Research Engineer Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, Inc., serving as an expert in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, she shapes cryptographic compliance strategies across Cisco’s global...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00
CEST
Room 3
13:20 CEST
The Security Response Process of the OpenSSL Library
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Speakers TM
Chief Technology Officer, OpenSSL Foundation
Tomáš Mráz is the Chief Technology Officer at OpenSSL Foundation and also a member of the Board of Directors of OpenSSL Foundation. He joined the OpenSSL team in 2021 as a Software Developer after being a long-time maintainer of OpenSSL and other crypto packages in Red Hat Enterprise...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00
CEST
Room 4
13:20 CEST
Artificial Insecurity: how AI threatens digital security and what we can do about it
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Speakers MK
Policy and Advocacy Director — Europe, Access Now
Marcel Kolaja is the Policy and Advocacy Director for Europe at Access Now, an organization defending and extending the digital rights of people and communities at risk. He leads a team of digital rights policy experts and drives the advocacy agenda at the intersection of human rights...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00
CEST
Room 1
13:50 CEST
CRA and its Problematic Impacts on F/OSS
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Speakers PL
Assistant professor, Masaryk University
JUDr. Pavel Loutocký, Ph.D., BA (Hons) is an assistant professor at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. He focuses in his research, teaching, and publishing activities on the regulatory aspects of electronic identification and trust services...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:50 - 14:20
CEST
Room 2
14:00 CEST
Daniel J. Bernstein — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Speakers
Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago
Prof. Daniel J. Bernstein designs cryptography to proactively reduce risks. His designs with large-scale deployment include X25519, Ed25519, ChaCha20, SipHash (co-designed with Jean-Philippe Aumasson), Streamlined NTRU Prime (with various co-designers), and Classic McEliece (with...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:40
CEST
Room 1
14:00 CEST
Community panel: Distributions
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
Speakers LM
Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Computer scientist with experience in PKI, protocols, and cryptography. Maintainer for SUSE.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50
CEST
Room 3
14:00 CEST
Optimizing ML-KEM and ML-DSA with Vector Instructions and Mathematical Techniques
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
Speakers TK
Cryptography Developer for Linux on Z, IBM Deutschland Research & Development
Timo Keller is a Cryptography Developer for Linux on IBM Z at IBM Deutschland Research & Development, Germany. He holds a PhD and a habilitation in number theory, arithmetic geometry, and computer algebra, and has served as a substitute associate professor in these fields. His current...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50
CEST
Room 4
14:20 CEST
Open Source: The Road to EU Sovereignty
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Speakers AG
individual, individual
Worked as webmaster for several organisations including leading Linux distribution. Lead the Paris Linux user group before leaving France. Living and working in Czechia as a developer for 12 years.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:20 - 14:50
CEST
Room 2
15:00 CEST
Afternoon Tea
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:00 - 15:30 CEST
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:00 - 15:30
CEST
All Rooms
15:30 CEST
Building Cryptography on Locally Verified Entropy
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Speakers JP
Security Architect, Quside
Jordi Prieto Gallego works as Security Architect at Quside, leading compliance and certification programs covering entropy sources and cryptographic modules. His work focuses on certification strategy, cryptographic architecture and compliance with international security requirem...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 4
15:30 CEST
Building a Fail-Closed Cryptographic Code LLM Support Assistant
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Speakers
Cryptographic Software Engineer, Keyfactor, Inc.
Francis Mendoza is a Filipino-American computer scientist working at the intersection of applied cryptography and resilient distributed systems. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, where his research focused on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 2
15:30 CEST
DTLSv1.3 in OpenSSL
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Speakers RH
Technical Leader/Associate OpenSSL Foundation Engineer, Cisco Systems/OpenSSL Foundation
Associate OpenSSL Foundation Engineer on part-time secondment from his role as Software Developer at Cisco Systems. With years of hands-on experience on many different platforms across both TLS and IPsec stacks, Ryan brings deep expertise in secure communications. At OpenSSL Foundation...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 3
15:30 CEST
PLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Speakers BB
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...
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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.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 1
16:10 CEST
Why People Trust the Internet but Ignore What Protects It
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Speakers BP
Owner, Payne Point Media
Brandan Payne is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Payne Point Media, where he helps organizations bridge the gap between complex technology and the people expected to buy, adopt, and trust it. His work focuses on human behavior, communication, marketing, and business strategy...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50
CEST
Room 1
16:10 CEST
Shim in 2026: A Certificate Rotation and a Decade-Overdue OpenSSL Migration
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Speakers
Product Manager, Azure, Microsoft
Brian “bex” Exelbierd is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, where he shapes Azure’s upstream Linux strategy and is the product manager for Flatcar Container Linux. Previously, he spent a decade at Red Hat in roles spanning development, the open source program office...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50
CEST
Room 4
16:10 CEST
Investigating cryptography deployments in security-certified products with sec-certs
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Speakers YY
PhD student, Masaryk University
Yasir is a PhD candidate at Masaryk University exploring the intersection of automated data science and security standardization. He leverages machine learning to scrutinize the efficacy of frameworks like Common Criteria (CC) and FIPS 140, proactively uncovering systemic security...
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Professor, Masaryk University
Vashek (Václav) Matyáš is a Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, heading its Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security. His research interests relate to applied cryptography and security; with over 200 peer-reviewed papers and articles. He worked also with Cybernetica...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50
CEST
Room 3
16:10 CEST
Testing PQC Timing Side-Channels
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Speakers AK
Principal Quality Engineer, Red Hat
Alicja is a quality engineer specialised in cryptography at Red Hat. She is the quality team lead responsible for handling core cryptographic packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux: OpenSSL, Mozilla NSS, GnuTLS, OpenSSH, libreswan, and others. With over 15 years of experience in the...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50
CEST
Room 2
16:50 CEST
16:50 CEST
Beyond Algorithms: Exploiting Platform Cryptography with OpenSSL Providers
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:30 CEST
Speakers FC
Software Developer, IBM Deutschland Research&Development GmbH
Opensource Developer @ IBM, Confidential Computing and Secure Execution for Linux (SEL)
HD
Software Developer, IBM Deutschland Research&Development GmbH
Opensource Developer @ IBM, Nominated community member for OpenSSL platform linux64-s390x, Linux Kernel co-Maintainer for crypto-related stuff for s390 architecture
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:30
CEST
Room 3
16:50 CEST
16:50 CEST
OpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:50 CEST
Speakers RB
Nexbridge
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
DB
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL
NG
Technical University of Munich
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
JJ
Senior Leader, S/W Engineering, Security and Trust Organization, Cisco Systems, Inc
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
AK
PQStation
Aditya Koranga has a strong backround in PQC and serves as Principal Security Architect at PQStation, where he helps banks and government agencies across Southeast Asia navigate their quantum-safe migration journey. He is the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Chair of the Post-Quantum...
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HPE
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
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...
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Community Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
PY
Director, Lenovo
OpenSSL Committer since 2018 and a member of the OpenSSL Corporation BAC. Currently serving as Director of Cloud Security at Lenovo, specializing in confidential computing and privacy-preserving technologies.
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:50
CEST
Room 1
17:30 CEST
Lessons Learned from Constructing Estonia’s PQC Migration Roadmap
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Speakers JV
Junior Researcher, Cybernetica AS
Jelizaveta is a junior researcher at Cybernetica and a PhD student at Tallinn University of Technology. She has been doing research in post-quantum cryptography, focusing more on cryptographic design of post-quantum threshold signature schemes. Additionally, she is a co-author of...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 4
17:30 CEST
What shall we do with two PKCS#11 providers?
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Speakers
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Everything Smart Cards, PKCS#11 and OpenSSL (mostly from outside).
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 2
17:30 CEST
New Insights into the Formal Verification of AWS-LC, a Fork of OpenSSL
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Speakers NM
Cryptography and Security Expert, KeyCryptic
Nicky Mouha is the Founder of
KeyCryptic, a company that provides cryptography and security consulting services. He has a Ph.D. and two decades of experience in cryptanalysis, cryptographic design, and both hardware and software implementations. During his time at NIST (2016-2025), he collaborated on a wide range of nat...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 3