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Wednesday, October 14
 

09:30 CEST

Shipping OpenSSL downstream and its challenge
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Distribution maintainers as system integrators: maintaining multiple OpenSSL versions across OS releases while keeping them secure and compatible.
Speakers
PM

Pedro Monreal

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... Read More →
LM

Lucas Mülling

Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Computer scientist with experience in PKI, protocols, and cryptography. Maintainer for SUSE.
AY

Angel Yankov

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
  Community, Talk

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
Speed-vs-memory tradeoffs in ML-DSA and ML-KEM: key representations and deferring expansion until values are needed.
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 →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Room 3
  Technical, Talk

11:00 CEST

Navigating the Post-Quantum Transition: Integrating FAEST and Classic McEliece into libOQS
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Practical challenges and implementation details of integrating FAEST and an updated Classic McEliece into libOQS.
Speakers
NA

Norman Ashley

Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Software Engineer working crypro libraries at Cisco. Contributor to OQS
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Talk

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
The cryptographic community has been abuzz for a decade about everyone needing to be ready for Post Quantum Cryptography. In April 2016, NIST published NISTIR 8105, "Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography", a technical report assessing the threat that quantum computers pose to existing public-key cryptographic systems. The real question we should be asking ourselves by now: "Is the current cryptography testing and validation pipeline capable of handling the impending Tsunami?" Under the leadership at NIST/NCCoE, we have begun the challenging journey of transforming this problematic workflow from labor intensive to the speed of computing. As with any such endeavor, we began breaking the problem down into organized and achievable workflows starting with the validation of the Entropy Source, the Algorithms, and the Module itself. With any such endeavor under intense pressure and through a collaboration between highly focused practitioners, much has been accomplished, but we still have much more work to be done. The defining of protocols for the exchange of evidence between an accredited laboratory and a certifying body to prove conformance has indeed been revolutionary. However, without extensive analysis and improvement on the workflow for ALL stakeholders, we will hit a brick wall and come to an untimely collapse. The answer to our problem is not simply to claim "AI" (Artificial Intelligence) will solve everything. This talk will take the listener through the troubled past of slow, human-centric cryptographic validations and how we can enter the twenty-first century of fast, computer-centric accelerated, and repeatable validations through "IA" — "Intelligent Automation".
Speakers
SG

Shawn Geddis

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... Read More →
JG

Jasmine Geddis

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Room 3
  Security, Talk

13:20 CEST

Advancing Clarity Through Collaboration
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
The CMUF Request for Guidance Working Group: how government, labs and industry create community-driven guidance for cryptographic modules.
Speakers
TW

Tricia Wolff

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Talk

14:00 CEST

Community panel: Distributions
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
A distributions panel on upstream time-to-merge bottlenecks and how upstream, distros and enterprises can share the certification burden.
Speakers
LM

Lucas Mülling

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
  Community, Panel

15:30 CEST

DTLSv1.3 in OpenSSL
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
DTLS 1.3 brings a variable-length unified header, encrypted sequence numbers, and an explicit ACK mechanism. This talk covers its implementation in OpenSSL.
Speakers
RH

Ryan Hooper

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 3
  Technical, Talk

16:10 CEST

Investigating cryptography deployments in security-certified products with sec-certs
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
What can be learned about crypto library usage in CC/FIPS-certified products from public documents, using the sec-certs tool.
Speakers
YY

Yasir Yakup Demircan

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... Read More →
VM

Vashek Matyas

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Room 3
  Security, Talk

16:50 CEST

Beyond Algorithms: Exploiting Platform Cryptography with OpenSSL Providers
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:30 CEST
Using OpenSSL Providers to exploit platform crypto hardware (mainframes, HSMs, embedded) where key material never surfaces in memory.
Speakers
FC

Finn Callies

Software Developer, IBM Deutschland Research&Development GmbH
Opensource Developer @ IBM, Confidential Computing and Secure Execution for Linux (SEL)
HD

Holger Dengler

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
  Technical, Talk

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
Formal verification of cryptographic implementations, particularly PQC in AWS-LC (a fork of OpenSSL): memory safety, type safety, functional correctness.
Speakers
NM

Nicky Mouha

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 3
  Technical, Talk
 
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