§ 03 — Speakers 13–15 October 2026 · Prague

The hands.
The work.
The arc.

The two authors of SSLeay — back in one room, thirty years on. The names around them are the people you ship under.

Opening keynote · Day 01 The SSLeay reunion 1995 → 2026. The two authors and one of the maintainers carrying the keynote on behalf of the team today, on one stage, for the first time.
Anchor plate 15 names hand-set. The rest of the company is listed below.
The company 108 speakers on the programme. Portraits arriving.
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RosterThe programme is set · 108 speakers
CFPClosed 15 July 2026
KeynotesThree across three days
Format40-min talks · 90-min tutorials
§ 06 — The speakers

The full company. — 108 voices, day by day —

Every name on the programme, in running order.

Portraits arriving as the sittings complete — plate pages linked where the first are done.

Day 01 · Tuesday 13 October27 speakers

  1. Magda Zdunkiewicz

    • Opening Conference09:00 · Main Stage
    • Leadership 3-way: Matt, Eric, Tim (moderated) — panel09:50 · Main Stage

  2. Anton Arapov

    • Welcome to the OpenSSL Conference 202609:05 · Main Stage

  3. Tim Hudson

    • Welcome to the OpenSSL Conference 202609:05 · Main Stage
    • Leadership 3-way: Matt, Eric, Tim (moderated) — panel09:50 · Main Stage

  4. Jonathan Felten

    • Cisco — invited talk · topic to be announced09:20 · Main Stage

  5. Matt Caswell

    • Leadership 3-way: Matt, Eric, Tim (moderated) — panel09:50 · Main Stage
    • OpenSSL's TLS Implementation: Inside the State Machine and Record Layer16:05 · Main Stage

  6. Eric A. Young

    • Leadership 3-way: Matt, Eric, Tim (moderated) — panel09:50 · Main Stage

  7. David Hook

    • Bouncy Castle — invited talk · topic to be announced10:50 · Main Stage
    • Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era16:05 · Hall IV

  8. Jonathan Park

    • Rebranding OpenSSL FIPS 140-3 Validations from a Laboratory Perspective11:20 · Main Stage

  9. Marcel Dasen

    • Securosys — invited talk · topic to be announced13:50 · Main Stage

  10. Lisa Rogers

    • Beyond the Checkbox: How Product Certifications Drive Ongoing Security Strategy and Market Access14:20 · Main Stage

  11. Mike Ounsworth

    • Why have the PQC standards taken so long? Bottlenecks, bickering, and building momentum15:20 · Hall II
    • Lessons learned on proper cryptographic hygiene in Rust17:30 · Hall II

  12. Jaroslav Řezník

    • The EU CRA vs. Community: Why You’re Safe, and How Stewards Help15:20 · Hall III

  13. Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma

    • Open Quantum Safe: Post-Quantum software research in the era of the first PQC standards15:20 · Hall IV

  14. Simo Sorce

    • Hybrid FIPS module using OpenSSL code: the Kryotpic project15:20 · Main Stage

  15. Bob Beck

    • Merkle Tree Certificate Proofs - How Merkle Trees and Merkle Subtrees are used in MTC's16:05 · Hall II

  16. Andrew Dinh

    • Merkle Tree Certificate Proofs - How Merkle Trees and Merkle Subtrees are used in MTC's16:05 · Hall II

  17. Mike Kushner

    • Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era16:05 · Hall IV

  18. Amanda McAllister Novak

    • During a Breach: How Encryption is Evaluated by Regulators, Insurers, and Counsel16:05 · Hall III

  19. Dr. Vladimir Soukharev

    • Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era16:05 · Hall IV

  20. Murugiah Souppaya

    • Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era16:05 · Hall IV

  21. Dr. Katrina Khanta

    • Privacy Is Not the Enemy! What Law Enforcement Misunderstands and What Cryptographers Can Do About It17:00 · Main Stage

  22. Rene Malmgren

    • Verifiable Builds in Untrusted Clouds17:00 · Hall IV

  23. Kajal Sapkota

    • Who Pays for Open Source? A First-Party Answer from the OpenSSL Corporation17:00 · Hall II

  24. Daiki Ueno

    • Instrumenting OpenSSL with Crypto-Auditing Probes for Post-Quantum Readiness17:00 · Hall III

  25. Joshua Hill

    • KeyPair — invited talk · topic to be announced17:30 · Main Stage

  26. Jake Maynard

    • 1 Module 3 Transitions17:30 · Hall IV

  27. Daniella Y Taveau

    • The Perfect Storm: Why Tech Is the Next Target for Destructive Regulation17:30 · Hall III
Day 02 · Wednesday 14 October57 speakers

  1. Tim Hudson

    • OpenSSL Corporation09:00 · Main Stage

  2. Michael Baentsch

    • A library-agnostic hybrid classic/PQ OpenSSL provider — built with AI09:30 · Hall II

  3. Stefan Eberle

    • From Zero to Hero: A Student's Journey Contributing to Production Cryptography09:30 · Hall IV

  4. Pedro Monreal

    • Shipping openssl downstream and it's challenge09:30 · Hall III

  5. Lucas Mülling

    • Shipping openssl downstream and it's challenge09:30 · Hall III
    • Community panel: Distributions14:00 · Hall III

  6. Angel Yankov

    • Shipping openssl downstream and it's challenge09:30 · Hall III

  7. Roman Zhukov

    • Nobody Told Maintainers They Were Saving The World. Now Is The Time.09:30 · Main Stage

  8. Carla Jedani

    • Securing the Next Generation: An OpenSSL Youth Outreach Strategy09:45 · Hall IV

  9. Dr. Lina Böcker

    • From Copilot to Commit: Handling AI-Generated Code in Open Source Crypto Libraries10:30 · Hall II

  10. Veronika Hanulíková

    • Finding Timing Side Channels When Internal Clocks Are Hidden10:30 · Hall IV

  11. Panos Kampanakis

    • TLS keyshare caching for faster handshakes10:30 · Main Stage

  12. Mike Ounsworth

    • How small can you (reasonably) get an ML-DSA and ML-KEM implementation?10:30 · Hall III

  13. Norman Ashley

    • Navigating the Post-Quantum Transition: Integrating FAEST and Classic McEliece into libOQS11:00 · Hall III

  14. Milan Brož

    • Self-Encrypting Disks in Linux - Fast, Expensive, and Mostly Harmless11:00 · Hall II

  15. Martin Perešíni

    • Where Post-Quantum Migration Hurts a Wi-Fi IoT Endpoint11:00 · Hall IV

  16. Bill Buchanan

    • Bill Buchanan — invited talk · topic to be announced11:30 · Main Stage

  17. Shawn Geddis

    • Is the current cryptography testing and validation pipeline process capable of handling the impending Tsunami?11:30 · Hall III

  18. Jasmine Geddis

    • Is the current cryptography testing and validation pipeline process capable of handling the impending Tsunami?11:30 · Hall III

  19. Maxim Kostin

    • Engineering Reality of CRA Compliance for Linux-based IoT Solutions11:30 · Hall IV

  20. Dmitry Misharov

    • HSM-Backed OpenPGP Signing for OpenSSL Releases: Architecture and Operations11:30 · Hall II

  21. Pavel Polach

    • Engineering Reality of CRA Compliance for Linux-based IoT Solutions11:30 · Hall IV

  22. Jon Ericson

    • The State of the OpenSSL Community13:20 · Hall II

  23. Marcel Kolaja

    • Artificial Insecurity: how AI threatens digital security and what we can do about it13:20 · Main Stage

  24. Tomáš Mráz

    • The Security Response Process of the OpenSSL Library13:20 · Hall IV

  25. Chris Ward

    • The State of the OpenSSL Community13:20 · Hall II
    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  26. Tricia Wolff

    • Advancing Clarity Through Collaboration13:20 · Hall III

  27. Pavel Loutocký

    • CRA and its Problematic Impacts on F/OSS13:50 · Hall II

  28. Daniel J. Bernstein

    • Daniel J. Bernstein — invited talk · topic to be announced14:00 · Main Stage

  29. Timo Keller

    • Optimizing ML-KEM and ML-DSA with Vector Instructions and Mathematical Techniques14:00 · Hall IV

  30. Alix Guillard

    • Open Source: The Road to EU Sovereignty14:20 · Hall II

  31. Bob Beck

    • PLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates15:30 · Main Stage

  32. Andrew Dinh

    • PLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates15:30 · Main Stage

  33. Jordi Prieto Gallego

    • Building Cryptography on Locally Verified Entropy15:30 · Hall IV

  34. Ryan Hooper

    • DTLSv1.3 in OpenSSL15:30 · Hall III

  35. Francis Mendoza

    • Building a Fail-Closed Cryptographic Code LLM Support Assistant15:30 · Hall II

  36. Yasir Yakup Demircan

    • Investigation cryptography deployments in security-certified products with sec-certs16:10 · Hall III

  37. Brian bex Exelbierd

    • Shim in 2026: A Certificate Rotation and a Decade-Overdue OpenSSL Migration16:10 · Hall IV

  38. Alicja Kario

    • Testing PQC Timing Side-Channels16:10 · Hall II

  39. Vashek Matyas

    • Investigation cryptography deployments in security-certified products with sec-certs16:10 · Hall III

  40. Brandan Payne

    • Why People Trust the Internet but Ignore What Protects It16:10 · Main Stage

  41. Randall Becker

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  42. Dmitry Belyavskiy

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  43. Billy Brumley

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  44. Finn Callies

    • Beyond Algorithms: Exploiting Platform Cryptography with OpenSSL Providers16:50 · Hall III

  45. Holger Dengler

    • Beyond Algorithms: Exploiting Platform Cryptography with OpenSSL Providers16:50 · Hall III

  46. Nikolas Gauder

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  47. Jeff Johnson

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  48. Ranjan Kathuria

    • The PQC Migration Copilot: Agentic AI for Crypto Discovery and Automated OpenSSL 3.5 Cutover16:50 · Hall IV

  49. Aditya Koranga

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  50. Kevin Micciche

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  51. Jaroslav Řezník

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  52. Simo Sorce

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  53. Jon Spillett

    • Jipher FIPS cryptography provider - How we wrapped OpenSSL and the FIPS module using Java’s FFM API16:50 · Hall II

  54. Paul Yang

    • OpenSSL Corporation Advisory Committees — BAC & TAC — panel16:50 · Main Stage

  55. Jakub Jelen

    • What shall we do with two PKCS#11 providers?17:30 · Hall II

  56. Nicky Mouha

    • New Insights into the Formal Verification of AWS-LC, a Fork of OpenSSL17:30 · Hall III

  57. Jelizaveta Vakarjuk

    • Lessons Learned from Constructing Estonia’s PQC Migration Roadmap17:30 · Hall IV
Day 03 · Thursday 15 October40 speakers

  1. Matt Caswell

    • OpenSSL Foundation — Delivering the Mission09:00 · Main Stage

  2. Dmitry Belyavskiy

    • From OpenSSL 3 to OpenSSL 4 in Fedora: true story10:30 · Hall IV
    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  3. Lukasz Chmielewski

    • Going beyond constant-time security in open-source cryptographic libraries10:30 · Hall II

  4. Jan Janasek

    • Going beyond constant-time security in open-source cryptographic libraries10:30 · Hall II

  5. Tanja Lange

    • Tanja Lange — invited talk · topic to be announced10:30 · Main Stage

  6. Jussipekka Leiwo

    • IT Security Product Certification in the Era of Automated Evidence Generation and AI-Assisted Evaluation10:30 · Hall III

  7. Tereza Formanová

    • invited talk · topic to be announced11:15 · Hall III

  8. Anthony Hu

    • DTLS 1.3... In the Kernel! Really?11:15 · Hall IV

  9. Kajal Sapkota

    • The Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, AWS-LC, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now11:15 · Hall II

  10. Tricia Wolff

    • The Case for Binding and Embedding – Many Modules One Validation11:15 · Main Stage

  11. Hayden Delaney

    • Agentic AI in security operations, liability when the agent acts13:20 · Main Stage
    • Beyond copyright: IP strategy in the age of generative AI15:30 · Main Stage

  12. Olivier Gillot

    • Practical Viability of NIST Post-Quantum Algorithms on Constrained ARM Devices: A Timing and Energy Study13:20 · Hall III

  13. Clemens Lang

    • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Tales from the last three years PQC transition at Red Hat13:20 · Hall II
    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  14. Megan Woods

    • The JOSTLE project from idea to first release.13:20 · Hall IV

  15. Roy Basmacier

    • AI assisted PQC integration in Bouncy Castle14:00 · Hall IV

  16. Bob Beck

    • Performance: The little sibling of cryptography14:00 · Main Stage

  17. Chris Brych

    • FIPS 140-3 Meets PQC - The Compliance Gap Nobody Planned For14:00 · Hall III

  18. John Gray

    • Composites Aren’t Optional: Designing PKI for the Post-Quantum Transition and Beyond14:00 · Hall II

  19. Neil Horman

    • Performance: The little sibling of cryptography14:00 · Main Stage

  20. William Bellingrath

    • Decoupling the OpenSSL FIPS Provider for Agility and Maintainability14:30 · Hall III
    • From 1.1.1 to 3.5: Modernizing OpenSSL for Enterprise Networking, FIPS 140-3, and Crypto Agility17:00 · Hall III

  21. Peter Gutmann

    • The Cost of Stunt Cryptography14:30 · Main Stage

  22. Kamil Malinka

    • Student Bug Bounties for OpenSSL-Based Products14:30 · Hall II

  23. Dr. Vladimir Soukharev

    • From Hidden Cryptography to Enterprise Risk: Securing Ecosystems for Cryptographic Compliance and Post-Quantum Readiness14:30 · Hall IV

  24. Viktor Dukhovni

    • TLS 1.3, session resumption, 0-RTT early data, external PSKs and all that...15:30 · Hall II

  25. James Fuller

    • Managing millions of sboms with trustify15:30 · Hall IV

  26. Radim Krčmář

    • Hardware-enforced cryptographic contexts that RISC-V software can use but never read.15:30 · Hall III

  27. Sridhar Balasubramanian

    • EU CRA is around the corner. Are you ready?16:15 · Hall II

  28. Jonathan Bateman

    • Breaking Deepfakes with Shared Secrets16:15 · Hall III

  29. Yaroslav Rosomakho

    • What's behind the MASQUE16:15 · Main Stage

  30. Paul Yang

    • Quantum-Resilient Confidential Computing: Securing Data in Use for the AI Era16:15 · Hall IV

  31. Randall Becker

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  32. Jon Ericson

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  33. Barry Fussell

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  34. Aditya Koranga

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  35. Shubham Kumar

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  36. Alexandr Nedvedicky

    • QUIC adventures17:00 · Hall IV

  37. Yi Ouyang

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  38. Norbert Pocs

    • Re: [URGENT] Eight Critical 0-Day Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL17:00 · Hall II

  39. Nicola Tuveri

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage

  40. Igor Ustinov

    • OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee — panel17:00 · Main Stage
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Compositor's note — the full company set in running order; portraits in correspondence, added as the sittings complete.
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