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Wednesday, October 14
 

09:30 CEST

From Zero to Hero: A Student's Journey Contributing to Production Cryptography
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 CEST
A student's journey: build systems, navigating a mature codebase, contribution workflows, and academic vs production crypto, mentored by IBM.
Speakers
SE

Stefan Eberle

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 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

09:45 CEST

Securing the Next Generation: An OpenSSL Youth Outreach Strategy
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
An OpenSSL youth outreach strategy: a sustainable ecosystem also needs informed users who understand what cryptography does for them.
Speakers
CJ

Carla Jedani

-, 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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

10:30 CEST

Finding Timing Side Channels When Internal Clocks Are Hidden
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Evaluating Java Card smart cards for timing side channels when the platform hides internal timing, using noisy host-side measurements.
Speakers
VH

Veronika Hanulíková

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

11:00 CEST

Where Post-Quantum Migration Hurts a Wi-Fi IoT Endpoint
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Where PQC migration hurts a constrained Wi-Fi IoT endpoint: tight CPU/RAM/flash/link budgets against much larger PQ keys and signatures.
Speakers
MP

Martin Perešíni

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

11:30 CEST

Engineering Reality of CRA Compliance for Linux-based IoT Solutions
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Making a stock OpenWrt One router secure-by-design vs paper-compliant with the CRA: a gap assessment against Annex I.
Speakers
MK

Maxim Kostin

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... Read More →
PP

Pavel Polach

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Talk

13:20 CEST

The Security Response Process of the OpenSSL Library
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
The history and current state of the OpenSSL Library security response process and policy, including the impact of AI-generated security reports.
Speakers
TM

Tomas Mraz

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

14:00 CEST

Optimizing ML-KEM and ML-DSA with Vector Instructions and Mathematical Techniques
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
Implementation techniques improving ML-KEM/ML-DSA efficiency on 128-bit vector architectures (IBM Z, POWER), combining vectorized arithmetic with maths.
Speakers
TK

Timo Keller

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

15:30 CEST

Building Cryptography on Locally Verified Entropy
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Cryptography as the transformation of entropy into security, and the case for locally verified entropy generation and delivery.
Speakers
JP

Jordi Prieto Gallego

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Talk

16:10 CEST

Shim in 2026: A Certificate Rotation and a Decade-Overdue OpenSSL Migration
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Shim ships a vendored, long-frozen OpenSSL in every UEFI Secure Boot distro. The story of finally migrating it plus a certificate rotation.
Speakers
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Brian "bex" Exelbierd

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

16:50 CEST

The PQC Migration Copilot: Agentic AI for Crypto Discovery and Automated OpenSSL 3.5 Cutover
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:30 CEST
An agentic-AI copilot for cryptographic discovery and automated cutover to OpenSSL 3.5's PQC providers.
Speakers
RK

Ranjan Kathuria

Staff Cloud Security Engineer, Rubrik Inc
My name is Ranjan Kathuria, and I am currently a Staff Cloud Security Engineer / Cloud Security Architect at Rubrik, a recognized leader in Data Backup and Data Security. Based in San Francisco, I lead Rubrik’s Cloud & Infrastructure Security Program, drawing on nearly a decade... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Talk

17:30 CEST

Lessons Learned from Constructing Estonia’s PQC Migration Roadmap
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
National-scale PQC migration: designing a roadmap practical under incomplete visibility, heterogeneous systems, supplier dependencies.
Speakers
JV

Jelizaveta Vakarjuk

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk
 
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