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Thursday, October 15
 

10:30 CEST

Going beyond constant-time security in open-source cryptographic libraries
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
A systematic software-engineering approach to integrating physical-attack (power/EM, fault-injection) defenses beyond baseline constant-time.
Speakers
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Lukasz Chmielewski

Assistant Professor, Masaryk University
Łukasz Chmielewski holds the position of Assistant Professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His primary area of expertise revolves around side-channel analysis (SCA) of public-key cryptosystems. In general, he is also interested in hardware attacks, including fault... Read More →
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Jan Janasek

Master's Student, Masaryk University
Jan Janasek is a Master's student at Masaryk University with a strong interest in hardware security, currently exploring side-channel analysis and fault injection, and participating in academic research to learn more about protecting embedded systems from physical vulnerabilities... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Room 2
  Technical, Talk

11:15 CEST

The Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, AWS-LC, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
In 2014 after Heartbleed the OpenSSL family split into LibreSSL, BoringSSL, AWS-LC, QuicTLS. A panel on why they forked and what happens now.
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 →
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Panel

13:20 CEST

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Tales from the last three years PQC transition at Red Hat
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
RHEL was first to sign packages with post-quantum keys. Trade-offs, what went wrong, TLS/SSH/IPSec state, and what to do first.
Speakers
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Clemens Lang

RHEL Crypto Team Product Owner, Red Hat
Product Owner of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Crypto Team. Resident Post-Quantum Transition Wrangler.
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 2
  Business, Talk

14:00 CEST

Composites Aren’t Optional: Designing PKI for the Post-Quantum Transition and Beyond
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 CEST
The PQC transition will last years, requiring PKI to straddle classical and quantum-safe worlds. Composite algorithms as a first-class PKI design pattern.
Speakers
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John Gray

Senior Staff Software Developer, Entrust
John Gray is a Senior Staff Software Developer at Entrust, specializing in PKI architecture, cryptographic protocol implementation, and post-quantum migration strategies. He facilitates the PQC Interoperability project at the IETF and has contributed to post-quantum cryptography standards... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 CEST
Room 2
  Technical, Talk

14:30 CEST

Student Bug Bounties for OpenSSL-Based Products
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Whether supervised university students can responsibly extend security testing, from integrating bug bounties into a secure-coding course.
Speakers
KM

Kamil Malinka

associate professor, Brno University of Technology
Kamil Malinka is an associate professor at FIT VUT in Brno and head of the Security@FIT research group, which focuses on information technology security. His research focuses primarily on the security aspects of artificial intelligence, such as the risks associated with the misuse... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

15:30 CEST

TLS 1.3, session resumption, 0-RTT early data, external PSKs and all that...
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
TLS 1.3 overloaded the PSK mechanism with resumption, 0-RTT and ECH overlap. A complex feature with non-obvious limits, addressed by RFC9258 (OpenSSL 4.1).
Speakers
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Viktor Dukhovni

Staff Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
OpenSSL staff engineer since May 2024, with focus on PQC and X.509.Unix system programmer since the mid 1980's with a focus on network security.
Long-term contributor to Postfix and maintainer of its TLS features.
Author of:RFC7435 (opportunistic security),RFC7161 (DANE updates)RFC7672 (DANE for SMTP),RFC9276 (DNSSEC NSEC3 BCP).Contributor to Heimdal and MIT Kerberos, OpenSSL, Haskell GHC compiler and libraries... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 2
  Technical, Talk

16:15 CEST

EU CRA is around the corner. Are you ready?
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
How software publishers selling in the EU/EEA can prepare for CRA vulnerability-reporting requirements and ENISA platform readiness by September 2026.
Speakers
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Sridhar Balasubramanian

Principal Product Security Architect, NetApp, Inc.,
Sridhar is currently working as Principal Security Architect within Product Security Group @ NetApp. With over 25 years in software industry, Sridhar is inventor/co-inventor for 16 US Patents and published 11 Conference papers till date.

Sridhar's area of expertise includes Storage and Information Security, Security Assurance, Cryptography, Secure Software Development Lifecycle, Secure Protocols, and Storage Management. Sridhar holds a Master's degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering
... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Room 2
  Security, Talk

17:00 CEST

Re: [URGENT] Eight Critical 0-Day Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
OpenSSL security report statistics and how the security handling process is being made faster and more efficient.
Speakers
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Norbert Pocs

Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
Junior software enthusiast. Was working as crypto package manager and currently part of the software engineer team of openssl.
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 2
  Security, Talk
 
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