ATO Meetup: Open Source Post-Quantum Cryptography + Panel discussion, with OpenSSL

ATO Meetups are free but require registration.

Details

please note your first and last name and email address are required to RSVP for this event due to onsite security requirements

We’ll host our second BIG meetup in November in partnership with a very special organization – OpenSSL! Post-quantum cryptography and security and privacy will be the focal point of the evening.

Also, the event will take place at a brand-new (for us) venue – Cisco’s RTP campus! We’ve never hosted a meetup here, so we’re really looking forward to it.

The evening will feature networking with the RTP tech community, an amazing 15-20 minute stand-alone talk, and a panel discussion featuring 3-4 of the region’s top security experts. The OpenSSL team, who will be onsite, will be delivering the talk and moderating the panel.

Doors open at 6:00 pm ET sharp for networking, live programming begins at 6:30. *Food and beverages will be served and great swag will be available.

Stand-Alone Talk:
Open Source Post-Quantum Cryptography

Description:
Matt Caswell, President of OpenSSL Foundation, will give an introduction to post-quantum cryptography, using OpenSSL as an example. Following the talk, he will moderate a panel discussion with industry experts from the RTP area exploring how their organizations are deploying and using post-quantum cryptography.

Panel Description:
Many of the cryptographic algorithms that are widely used and deployed today are susceptible to being broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, if such a thing is ever developed. Even today’s communications could be at risk due to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks. Cryptographers and Cyber-security professionals have been worried about this existential threat for years. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is a new field of practice that uses algorithms that are designed to be safe from these types of attacks. In 2024, new PQC algorithm standards were published, and these standardized algorithms are now starting to appear in mainstream open-source cryptographic libraries such as OpenSSL 3.5. Learn more about the implications of PQC, and how major commercial organizations are responding to these developments.

Panelists: Coming soon

Questions? Contact us at info@allthingsopen.org.

Matt Caswell, President & Senior Software Engineer at OpenSSL Foundation

Matt has been a full-time developer on the OpenSSL project team for more than 10 years and is among the top three most prolific committers to the OpenSSL codebase of all time. He is a subject matter expert in the OpenSSL Library’s SSL/TLS implementation, including TLSv1.3 and other high-profile features and capabilities, as well as being part of the team that implemented PQC algorithms in OpenSSL 3.5.