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Thursday, October 15
 

09:00 CEST

OpenSSL Foundation — Delivering the Mission
Thursday October 15, 2026 09:00 - 09:35 CEST
The OpenSSL Foundation exists to serve the communities that depend on OpenSSL Library. Matt Caswell reviews the year in the open-source project and lays out how the Foundation is delivering on its mission of keeping trusted cryptography open and accessible to everyone.
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 →
Thursday October 15, 2026 09:00 - 09:35 CEST
Room 1
  Keynote, Keynote

10:30 CEST

Tanja Lange — Session Title Coming Soon
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available. This session will be presented remotely.
Speakers
avatar for Tanja Lange

Tanja Lange

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
Prof Dr. Tanja Lange joined Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) as full professor in 2006. Her work bridges the gaps between algebraic geometry, theoretical cryptography, and real-world information security. She is an expert on curve-based cryptography and post-quantum cryptography... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

11:15 CEST

The Case for Binding and Embedding – Many Modules One Validation
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Applying FIPS 140-3 IG on Bound and Embedded Modules to justify boundaries and demonstrate compliance for multiple modules in one enclosure.
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 →
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

13:20 CEST

Agentic AI in security operations, liability when the agent acts
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
AI agents acting autonomously in security operations, and the liability gap when procurement treats them as conventional software.
Speakers
avatar for Hayden Delaney

Hayden Delaney

Partner, Thomson Geer Lawyers
With both law and IT qualifications, Hayden has a deep understanding of the technology and digital economy sector. Hayden can quickly grasp how both new and established technologies impact a client’s legal and commercial risks, and also how it can transform a business. He is sought... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

14:00 CEST

Performance: The little sibling of cryptography
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 CEST
Correct code is secure code, but users want fast too. Over the last year OpenSSL made an effort on performance; this talk covers the improvements.
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 →
NH

Neil Horman

Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
I am an open source veteran of the last 25 years, working initially on the network stack in the linux kernel, and some cryptographic primitives, more recently working witht he OpenSSL corporation, focused on my favorite thing, but fixing and performance.
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

14:30 CEST

The Cost of Stunt Cryptography
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Exotic named cryptographic attacks carry a real governance cost for maintainers who must respond to often-nonexistent threats.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Gutmann

Peter Gutmann

Founder and Maintainer, cryptlib
Peter Gutmann is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland working on design and analysis of cryptographic security architectures, security usability, and embedded systems security. He helped write the popular PGP encryption package, has authored... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

15:30 CEST

Beyond copyright: IP strategy in the age of generative AI
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Using the 2026 Claude Code source-map leak and the DMCA takedown blitz as a stress test of copyright in the age of generative AI.
Speakers
avatar for Hayden Delaney

Hayden Delaney

Partner, Thomson Geer Lawyers
With both law and IT qualifications, Hayden has a deep understanding of the technology and digital economy sector. Hayden can quickly grasp how both new and established technologies impact a client’s legal and commercial risks, and also how it can transform a business. He is sought... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

16:15 CEST

What's behind the MASQUE
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
MASQUE builds tunnelling on HTTP/3 over QUIC, reusing web infrastructure and auth models unlike IPsec/WireGuard.
Speakers
YR

Yaroslav Rosomakho

Chief Scientist, Zscaler
Yaroslav Rosomakho is Chief Scientist at Zscaler, where he leads research and innovation in secure networking, infrastructure resiliency, protocol design, and post-quantum cryptography. He is an IAB member and an active contributor to the IETF, currently chairing the HPKE and SEAT... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

17:00 CEST

OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:50 CEST
The OpenSSL Foundation's community delegates on stage — the newly merged advisory committee (formerly separate Business and Technical Advisory Committees) on guiding the Foundation's mission, priorities, and community representation. Moderated by Jon Ericson.
Speakers
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Randall Becker

Nexbridge
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
DB

Dmitry Belyavskiy

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL
avatar for Jon Ericson

Jon Ericson

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... Read More →
BF

Barry Fussell

The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
AK

Aditya Koranga

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... Read More →
SK

Shubham Kumar

The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
avatar for Clemens Lang

Clemens Lang

RHEL Crypto Team Product Owner, Red Hat
Product Owner of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Crypto Team. Resident Post-Quantum Transition Wrangler.
YO

Yi Ouyang

The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
NT

Nicola Tuveri

Tampere University
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
avatar for Igor Ustinov

Igor Ustinov

Senior Software Engineer, OpenSSL Foundation
I'm a cryptographer by training with a career spanning applied cryptography in professional software development. I've been working closely with OpenSSL for two decades.
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:50 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Panel
 
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