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The OpenSSL Conference is the global meeting place for the people who build, deploy, govern, and rely on secure digital infrastructure. It brings together developers, security engineers, researchers, policymakers, enterprises, legal and compliance professionals, and community contributors, all united by a shared commitment to stronger open-source security.
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Tuesday, October 13
 

15:20 CEST

Open Quantum Safe: Post-Quantum software research in the era of the first PQC standards
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 4
The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project's mission and role supporting the PQC transition in the era of the first PQ standards.
Speakers
RM

Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma

Senior Cryptography Researcher, Indra Sistemas de Comunicaciones Seguras / Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Rodrigo is a Senior Cryptography Researcher at Indra Sistemas de Comunicaciones Seguras, with experience both in pre-quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography, his area of expertise. He is also an Industrial PhD candidate, focused on the algebraic aspects of PQC, specifically Algebraic... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

16:05 CEST

Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Room 4
PQC transition exposes a lack of structural crypto agility. A panel on forging a common crypto API across the ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for David Hook

David Hook

VP Software Engineering, Bouncy Castle
David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in... Read More →
avatar for Mike Kushner

Mike Kushner

Senior Product Architect, Keyfactor
Mike Kushner is a Senior Product Architect at Keyfactor and a longtime contributor to EJBCA, one of the world's leading open-source PKI platforms. A self-described "certificate nurturer," Mike brings deep expertise in public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, and cryptographic lifecycle... Read More →
DV

Dr. Vladimir Soukharev

VP, Cryptographic Technology, Keyfactor
Vladimir Soukharev, Ph.D., is a cryptographer specializing in post-quantum security and the broader cryptographic landscape. He earned his doctorate at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, focusing on elliptic curve cryptography under Professor... Read More →
MS

Murugiah Souppaya

Distinguished Technologist, HP Security Lab
Murugiah Souppaya is a Distinguished Technologist at HP Security Lab, where he leads strategic advanced development projects to help customers adopt state of the art endpoint security capabilities to further enterprise zero trust and security outcomes. He collaborates with HP’s... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Panel

17:00 CEST

Verifiable Builds in Untrusted Clouds
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4
Using confidential computing to establish verifiable build pipelines that assure trusted source and an uncompromised build environment.
Speakers
RM

Rene Malmgren

CTO, Flowrate
René Malmgren is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience in secure systems, cryptography, and software engineering. He specializes in the design and implementation of hyper-secure development environments, trusted computing architectures, and high-assurance... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4
  Business, Talk

17:30 CEST

1 Module 3 Transitions
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 4
The end of FIPS 140-2, migration to 140-3, coming algorithm deprecations, and policy-based crypto-agility toward 2035 PQC.
Speakers
JM

Jake Maynard

Director of Engineering, SafeLogic
Jake Maynard has been in the Cyber Security industry for over twenty years. He spent over 17 years with Citrix Systems (Sponsor of OpenSSL’s 2.x FIPS canister) working on Networking, Mobile Device Management, and Virtualization technologies ultimately landing in the security engineering... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk
 
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
Room 4
Shim ships a vendored, long-frozen OpenSSL in every UEFI Secure Boot distro. The story of finally migrating it plus a certificate rotation.
Speakers
avatar for Brian

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
Room 4
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
Room 4
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
 
Thursday, October 15
 

10:30 CEST

From OpenSSL 3 to OpenSSL 4 in Fedora: true story
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Room 4
Migrating a major OpenSSL version in a distro: package management limits, devel subpackages, config file separation, 3rd-party providers, API changes.
Speakers
DB

Dmitry Belyavskiy

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Room 4
  Business, Talk

11:15 CEST

DTLS 1.3... In the Kernel! Really?
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Room 4
The bits and bytes of DTLS 1.3 and how and why it can be leveraged directly from the kernel rather than userland.
Speakers
AH

Anthony Hu

Senior Software Developer, wolfSSL Inc.
Anthony Hu has been working in the consumer electronics industry for 25 years and has been bringing post-quantum algorithms to various network protocols for 10 years. He has been working with wolfSSL for 5 years. Previous to his professional career, Anthony graduated from the University... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

13:20 CEST

The JOSTLE project from idea to first release.
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 4
JOSTLE is a Java Cryptography Architecture provider bringing OpenSSL crypto to the JVM (Java 8-25).
Speakers
MW

Megan Woods

Senior Software Engineer, Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc and Key Factor Inc.
For time Bouncy Castle Maintainer for over a decade and part time for the life of the project. Senior Software Engineer at KeyFactor for the Bouncy Castle Team
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

14:00 CEST

AI assisted PQC integration in Bouncy Castle
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 CEST
Room 4
Where AI assistance actually accelerated PQC integration in Bouncy Castle, where it fails, and the verification needed to make it trustworthy.
Speakers
RB

Roy Basmacier

Software Engineer, Keyfactor
Roy Basmacier is a software engineer working on cryptographic infrastructure and post-quantum algorithm integration in Bouncy Castle. He's been a core member of the Bouncy Castle team since 2021. His recent work has focused on implementing and validating PQC algorithms within the... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

14:30 CEST

From Hidden Cryptography to Enterprise Risk: Securing Ecosystems for Cryptographic Compliance and Post-Quantum Readiness
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Room 4
Cryptography as a board-level risk; Keyfactor's Fortune 500 analysis of visibility into where crypto and OpenSSL are used.
Speakers
DV

Dr. Vladimir Soukharev

VP, Cryptographic Technology, Keyfactor
Vladimir Soukharev, Ph.D., is a cryptographer specializing in post-quantum security and the broader cryptographic landscape. He earned his doctorate at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, focusing on elliptic curve cryptography under Professor... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Talk

15:30 CEST

Managing millions of sboms with trustify
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 4
The engineering behind Trustify, the open-source core of Red Hat's Trusted Profile Analyzer, to ingest and correlate SBOMs at scale.
Speakers
JF

James Fuller

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jim Fuller is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Red Hat's Product Security (PSIRT) team, where for the past five years he has helped build tooling that triages, analyzes, and remediates vulnerabilities across Red Hat's vast portfolio — including OSIDB (the Open Source Incident... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 4
  Security, Talk

16:15 CEST

Quantum-Resilient Confidential Computing: Securing Data in Use for the AI Era
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Room 4
Integrating PQC into confidential computing (TEEs) using OpenSSL's evolving PQC to protect data-in-use against quantum threats.
Speakers
PY

Paul Yang

Director, Lenovo
OpenSSL Committer since 2018 and a member of the OpenSSL Corporation BAC. Currently serving as Director of Cloud Security at Lenovo, specializing in confidential computing and privacy-preserving technologies.
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk

17:00 CEST

QUIC adventures
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4
QUIC client (3.2) and server (3.5) in OpenSSL: missing RFC9000 pieces, known limits, a Hello-QUIC across three libraries.
Speakers
AN

Alexandr Nedvedicky

developer, OpenSSL Corporation
software developer in OpenSSL corporation
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4
  Technical, Talk
 
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