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15:20 CEST
Why have the PQC standards taken so long? Bottlenecks, bickering, and building momentum
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 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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Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00
CEST
Room 2
16:05 CEST
Merkle Tree Certificate Proofs - How Merkle Trees and Merkle Subtrees are used in MTC's
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 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.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55
CEST
Room 2
17:00 CEST
Who Pays for Open Source? A First-Party Answer from the OpenSSL Corporation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Speakers KS
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...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30
CEST
Room 2
17:30 CEST
Lessons learned on proper cryptographic hygiene in Rust
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 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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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 2
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
CEST
Room 2
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
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
11:30 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
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
13:50 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
14:20 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
15:30 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
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
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
10:30 CEST
Going beyond constant-time security in open-source cryptographic libraries
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Speakers LC
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...
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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...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10
CEST
Room 2
11:15 CEST
13:20 CEST
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
Speakers JG
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...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30
CEST
Room 2
14:30 CEST
Student Bug Bounties for OpenSSL-Based Products
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Speakers KM
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...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00
CEST
Room 2
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
Speakers VD
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...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 2
16:15 CEST
EU CRA is around the corner. Are you ready?
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Speakers SB
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...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55
CEST
Room 2
17:00 CEST