§ 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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CFPClosed 15 July 2026
KeynotesThree across three days
Format40-min talks · 90-min tutorials
§ 06 — The speakers

The full company. — 104 voices, A to Z —

Every name on the programme, by surname.

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

A2 speakers

  1. Anton Arapov

    • Tue 09:10 · Main StageWelcome to the OpenSSL Conference 2026
    • Tue 09:20 · Main StageThree Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation
    • Wed 09:00 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Keynote

  2. Norman Ashley

    • Wed 11:00 · Hall IVNavigating the Post-Quantum Transition: Integrating FAEST and Classic McEliece into libOQS
B14 speakers

  1. Michael Baentsch

    • Wed 09:30 · Hall IIA library-agnostic hybrid classic/PQ OpenSSL provider — built with AI

  2. Sridhar Balasubramanian

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

  3. Roy Basmacier

    • Thu 14:30 · Hall IIAI assisted PQC integration in Bouncy Castle

  4. Jonathan Bateman

    • Thu 16:15 · Hall IIIBreaking Deepfakes with Shared Secrets

  5. Bob Beck

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IIPLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates
    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IIThe Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, QuicTLS, Tongsuo, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now
    • Thu 14:00 · Hall IIIPerformance: The little sibling of cryptography

  6. Randall Becker

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IIICommunity panel: Distributions
    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
    • Thu 17:00 · Main StageOpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee

  7. William Bellingrath

    • Thu 17:00 · Hall IIIFrom 1.1.1 to 3.5: Modernizing OpenSSL for Enterprise Networking, FIPS 140-3, and Crypto Agility

  8. Dmitry Belyavskiy

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IIICommunity panel: Distributions
    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
    • Thu 10:30 · Hall IVFrom OpenSSL 3 to OpenSSL 4 in Fedora: true story

  9. Matyáš Bernardy

    • Wed 16:50 · Hall IVThe Bear Leap – How Polar Bear Care Has Transformed at Zoo Brno

  10. Daniel J. Bernstein

    • Thu 10:30 · Main Stage · remoteGetting a subroutine right: a case study

  11. Lina Böcker

    • Wed 10:30 · Hall IIFrom Copilot to Commit: Handling AI-Generated Code in Open Source Crypto Libraries
    • Wed 16:10 · Main StageLegal and Commercial Pitfalls of Poor Open Source and IP Management

  12. Milan Brož

    • Tue 17:00 · Hall IISelf-Encrypting Disks in Linux - Fast, Expensive, and Mostly Harmless

  13. Chris Brych

    • Thu 14:30 · Hall IIIFIPS 140-3 Meets PQC - The Compliance Gap Nobody Planned For

  14. Bill Buchanan

    • Tue 15:20 · Main StagePost-Quantum Cryptography: Evaluation, AI Threats and the Future
C3 speakers

  1. Matt Caswell

    • Tue 09:20 · Main StageThree Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation
    • Tue 16:05 · Main StageOpenSSL's TLS Implementation: Inside the State Machine and Record Layer
    • Thu 09:00 · Main StageOpenSSL Foundation — Delivering the Mission
    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IIThe Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, QuicTLS, Tongsuo, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now

  2. Justin Corlett

    • Tue 14:20 · Main StageOpenDaiY — Move fast and make things.

  3. Bruno Couillard

    • Wed 11:30 · Hall IIFree to Leave: Why Cryptographic Mobility Matters in the Quantum Era
D7 speakers

  1. Marcel Dasen

    • Tue 11:20 · Main StagePost-Quantum Cryptography: Why Moving Too Fast Can Be as Risky as Moving Too Slowly

  2. Hayden Delaney

    • Wed 16:10 · Main StageLegal and Commercial Pitfalls of Poor Open Source and IP Management
    • Thu 15:30 · Main StageBeyond copyright: IP strategy in the age of generative AI

  3. Yasir Yakup Demircan

    • Wed 16:10 · Hall IIIInvestigating cryptography deployments in security-certified products with sec-certs

  4. Holger Dengler

    • Wed 16:50 · Hall IIIBeyond Algorithms: Exploiting Platform Cryptography with OpenSSL Providers

  5. Sangeeta Devi

    • Tue 17:00 · Hall IVProtecting the Human in a Digital World: How CyberCat Translates Digital Security into Safer Human Decisions

  6. Andrew Dinh

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IIPLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates

  7. Viktor Dukhovni

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IVArchitecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
    • Thu 16:15 · Main StageTLS 1.3, session resumption, 0-RTT early data, external PSKs and all that...
E2 speakers

  1. Stefan Eberle

    • Wed 09:30 · Hall IVFresh Eyes on OpenSSL: A Newcomer's Report

  2. Jon Ericson

    • Thu 14:00 · Main StageThe State of the OpenSSL Community
    • Thu 17:00 · Main StageOpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee
F4 speakers

  1. Jonathan Felten

    • Tue 10:20 · Main StageThe Last Mile of Trust

  2. Tereza Formanová

    • Wed 16:10 · Main StageLegal and Commercial Pitfalls of Poor Open Source and IP Management

  3. Kevin Füchsel

    • Tue 13:20 · Main StageSpooky Action at a Distance – Entanglement-Based QKD in Practice, From the Physical Layer to the Application

  4. James Fuller

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IIICommunity panel: Distributions
    • Thu 15:30 · Hall IVManaging millions of sboms with trustify
G9 speakers

  1. Areg Gasparyan

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IIICommunity panel: Distributions

  2. Nikolas Gauder

    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel

  3. Jasmine Geddis

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

  4. Shawn Geddis

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

  5. Evgeny Gervis

    • Thu 09:30 · Hall IIThe Last Mile of PQC Migration: From Cryptographic Inventory to Production Remediation

  6. Olivier Gillot

    • Thu 09:30 · Hall IIIPost-Quantum Cryptography on a Budget: Benchmarking ML-KEM and ML-DSA on Constrained IoT Hardware

  7. John Gray

    • Thu 14:00 · Hall IIComposites Aren’t Optional: Designing PKI for the Post-Quantum Transition and Beyond

  8. Alix Guillard

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IIOpen Source: The Road to EU Sovereignty

  9. Peter Gutmann

    • Thu 13:20 · Main StageAI in Open-Source Cryptography: Maintainers Compare Notes
    • Thu 14:30 · Main StageThe Cost of Stunt Cryptography
H7 speakers

  1. Veronika Hanulíková

    • Wed 10:30 · Hall IVFinding Timing Side Channels When Internal Clocks Are Hidden

  2. Joshua Hill

    • Tue 17:30 · Main StageIntegrating Multiple Randomness Sources in an SP 800-90C RBGC Framework

  3. David Hook

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IVArchitecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
    • Wed 11:00 · Main StageDr. Tokenlove or: How Bouncy Castle Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LLM
    • Thu 13:20 · Main StageAI in Open-Source Cryptography: Maintainers Compare Notes

  4. Ryan Hooper

    • Wed 15:30 · Hall IIIDTLS 1.3 in OpenSSL

  5. Neil Horman

    • Thu 13:20 · Main StageAI in Open-Source Cryptography: Maintainers Compare Notes
    • Thu 14:00 · Hall IIIPerformance: The little sibling of cryptography

  6. Anthony Hu

    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IVDTLS 1.3 in the Linux Kernel via wolfSSL Kernel Module

  7. Tim Hudson

    • Not currently scheduled
J4 speakers

  1. Jan Janasek

    • Thu 10:30 · Hall IIGoing beyond constant-time security in open-source cryptographic libraries

  2. Carla Jedani

    • Wed 09:45 · Hall IVSecuring the Next Generation: An OpenSSL Youth Outreach Strategy

  3. Jakub Jelen

    • Wed 11:00 · Hall IIWhat shall we do with two PKCS#11 providers?

  4. Jeff Johnson

    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
K12 speakers

  1. Panos Kampanakis

    • Wed 10:30 · Main StageTLS keyshare caching for faster handshakes

  2. Alicja Kario

    • Wed 16:10 · Hall IITesting PQC Timing Side-Channels

  3. Timo Keller

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IVOptimizing ML-KEM and ML-DSA with Vector Instructions and Mathematical Techniques

  4. Katrina Khanta

    • Wed 15:30 · Hall IVPrivacy Is Not the Enemy! What Law Enforcement Misunderstands and What Cryptographers Can Do About It

  5. Hassan Kholil

    • Tue 17:00 · Main StageCryptographic Infrastructure for the Post-Quantum Transition

  6. Marcel Kolaja

    • Wed 15:30 · Main StageArtificial Insecurity: how AI threatens digital security and what we can do about it
    • Wed 16:10 · Main StageLegal and Commercial Pitfalls of Poor Open Source and IP Management

  7. Aditya Koranga

    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel

  8. Maxim Kostin

    • Wed 11:30 · Hall IVEngineering Reality of CRA Compliance for Linux-based IoT Solutions

  9. Radim Krčmář

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

  10. Daniel Kubec

    • Wed 17:30 · Hall IIIZero-Overhead Cryptography in OpenSSL-Powered Network Stack

  11. Shubham Kumar

    • Thu 17:00 · Main StageOpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee

  12. Mike Kushner

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IVArchitecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
L5 speakers

  1. Clemens Lang

    • Tue 17:00 · Hall IIIInstrumenting OpenSSL with Crypto-Auditing Probes for Post-Quantum Readiness
    • Thu 17:00 · Main StageOpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee

  2. Tanja Lange

    • Wed 14:20 · Main Stage · remoteMigration roadmaps and PQC standards -- A European perspective

  3. Jussipekka Leiwo

    • Thu 10:30 · Hall IIIIT Security Product Certification in the Era of Automated Evidence Generation and AI-Assisted Evaluation

  4. Marta Lewandowska

    • Wed 16:10 · Hall IVShim in 2026: A Certificate Rotation and a Decade-Overdue OpenSSL Migration

  5. Pavel Loutocký

    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IIICRA and its Problematic Impacts on F/OSS
M7 speakers

  1. Kamil Malinka

    • Thu 14:00 · Hall IVStudent Bug Bounties for OpenSSL-Based Products

  2. Vashek Matyas

    • Wed 16:10 · Hall IIIInvestigating cryptography deployments in security-certified products with sec-certs

  3. Jake Maynard

    • Tue 17:30 · Hall IVOne Module Three Transitions

  4. Francis Mendoza

    • Wed 15:30 · Hall IIWhen Hallucinations Become Vulnerabilities: Building Reliable AI for Cryptography

  5. Nicky Mouha

    • Tue 17:30 · Hall IIINew Insights into the Formal Verification of AWS-LC, a Fork of OpenSSL

  6. Tomas Mraz

    • Thu 09:30 · Main StageThe Security Response Process of the OpenSSL Library

  7. Lucas Mülling

    • Wed 09:30 · Hall IIIShipping OpenSSL downstream and its challenges
N2 speakers

  1. Alexandr Nedvedicky

    • Thu 17:00 · Hall IVOpenSSL QUIC adventure

  2. Amanda McAllister Novak

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IIIDuring a Breach: How Encryption is Evaluated by Regulators, Insurers, and Counsel
O1 speaker

  1. Mike Ounsworth

    • Tue 15:20 · Hall IIWhy have the PQC standards taken so long? Bottlenecks, bickering, and building momentum
    • Tue 17:30 · Hall IIHow small can you (reasonably) get an ML-DSA and ML-KEM implementation?
P3 speakers

  1. Jonathan Park

    • Tue 13:50 · Main StageRebranding OpenSSL: A Laboratory Perspective

  2. Norbert Pocs

    • Thu 17:00 · Hall IIRe: [URGENT] Eight Critical 0-Day Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

  3. Pavel Polach

    • Wed 11:30 · Hall IVEngineering Reality of CRA Compliance for Linux-based IoT Solutions
R3 speakers

  1. Jaroslav Řezník

    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
    • Thu 15:30 · Hall IIThe EU CRA vs. Community: Why You’re Safe, and How Stewards Help

  2. Lisa Rogers

    • Tue 10:50 · Main StageBeyond the Checkbox: How Product Certifications Drive Ongoing Security Strategy and Market Access

  3. Yaroslav Rosomakho

    • Tue 15:20 · Hall IIIWhat's behind the MASQUE
S7 speakers

  1. Rich Salz

    • Wed 10:30 · Hall III"git revert" review of an OpenSSL fork
    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IIThe Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, QuicTLS, Tongsuo, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now

  2. Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma

    • Tue 15:20 · Hall IVOpen Quantum Safe: Post-Quantum software research in the era of the first PQC standards

  3. Kajal Sapkota

    • Wed 11:00 · Hall IIIWho Pays for Open Source? A First-Party Answer from the OpenSSL Corporation
    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IIThe Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, QuicTLS, Tongsuo, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now

  4. Simo Sorce

    • Wed 11:30 · Main StageHybrid FIPS module using OpenSSL code: the Kryoptic project
    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel

  5. Vladimir Soukharev

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IVArchitecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
    • Thu 14:30 · Hall IVFrom Hidden Cryptography to Enterprise Risk: Securing Ecosystems for Cryptographic Compliance and Post-Quantum Readiness

  6. Murugiah Souppaya

    • Tue 16:05 · Hall IVArchitecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era

  7. Jon Spillett

    • Wed 16:50 · Hall IIJipher FIPS cryptography provider - Wrapping OpenSSL and the FIPS module using Java’s FFM API
T1 speaker

  1. Dmitrijs Trizna

    • Wed 17:30 · Hall II500 CVEs Later: Lessons from Securing Open Source with AI
V1 speaker

  1. Jelizaveta Vakarjuk

    • Wed 17:30 · Hall IVLessons Learned from Constructing Estonia’s PQC Migration Roadmap
W3 speakers

  1. Chris Ward

    • Wed 14:20 · Hall IIICommunity panel: Distributions
    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
    • Thu 14:00 · Main StageThe State of the OpenSSL Community

  2. Tricia Wolff

    • Thu 11:15 · Main StageThe Case for Binding and Embedding – Many Modules One Validation

  3. Megan Woods

    • Thu 09:30 · Hall IVJostle, OpenSSL's new Java Cryptography Provider for JVMs 8 to 25+, with FIPS support
    • Thu 13:20 · Main StageAI in Open-Source Cryptography: Maintainers Compare Notes
Y3 speakers

  1. Paul Yang

    • Wed 16:50 · Main StageOpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
    • Thu 11:15 · Hall IIThe Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, QuicTLS, Tongsuo, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now
    • Thu 16:15 · Hall IVQuantum-Resilient Confidential Computing: Securing Data in Use for the AI Era

  2. Angel Yankov

    • Wed 09:30 · Hall IIIShipping OpenSSL downstream and its challenges

  3. Eric Young

    • Tue 09:20 · Main StageThree Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation
Z4 speakers

  1. Alex Zaslavsky

    • Thu 09:30 · Hall IIThe Last Mile of PQC Migration: From Cryptographic Inventory to Production Remediation

  2. Magda Zdunkiewicz

    • Tue 09:05 · Main StageConference Opening
    • Tue 09:20 · Main StageThree Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation

  3. Tereza Zerhau

    • Wed 16:50 · Hall IVThe Bear Leap – How Polar Bear Care Has Transformed at Zoo Brno

  4. Roman Zhukov

    • Wed 09:30 · Main StageNobody Told Maintainers They Were Saving The World. Now Is The Time.
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