Category: OpenSSL Blog

OpenSSL Mailing Lists Are Moving to Google Groups

We are announcing a change in how communication and collaboration will take place within the OpenSSL community. Effective August 1st, 2024, the OpenSSL mailing lists will migrate to Google Groups. This transition is designed to streamline communication channels and simplify…

Join Our Exclusive Webinar on Performance Tuning With OpenSSL

Secure communication is vital in today’s digital world, but it sometimes slows down your applications. We invite you to an insightful webinar on optimizing application performance using OpenSSL. This session is designed for individuals seeking to enhance the security and…

OpenSSL Mailing Lists Are Moving to Google Groups

We are announcing a change in how communication and collaboration will take place within the OpenSSL community. Effective August 1st, 2024, the OpenSSL mailing lists will migrate to Google Groups. This transition is designed to streamline communication channels and simplify…

Large Issue Cleanup in OpenSSL

OpenSSL is cleaning up its issue backlog Whats going on? Recently, some may have noticed issues (particularly old ones) in the openssl repository have received an update, having the ‘inactive’ label applied to them with a comment indicating that they…

New OpenSSL Patch Releases Available

New OpenSSL patch releases are available OpenSSL has released the following new patch level releases, available for download now. Notable changes for each release are as follows: OpenSSL-3.0.14 Fixes for various memory leaks Various build and behavioral fixes on VMS…

Soliciting Input Regarding a Potential Hardening Effort

OpenSSL is soliciting input on a hardening effort for our library. The details can be found here: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/discussions/24321 Whats going on? An issue was reported to us recently, in which it was found that some CPU’s that use SIMD registers…

OpenSSL Is Hiring

OpenSSL is hiring for a mid level engineer to join our team We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team. As a Software Engineer at OpenSSL, you will play a vital role in sustaining and evolving the core…

Releases Distribution Changes

I’d like to give you a heads-up about some changes we’re making at OpenSSL. We’re simplifying how you can get our software, and that means we’re phasing out some older methods that don’t quite fit with the way the web…

Meet With OpenSSL at RSA Conference 2024

This year, OpenSSL will be attending RSA Conference 2024, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity events. Throughout May 6-9 in San Francisco, we are seeking to engage with our communities at RSA to better understand their needs and problems. We…

OpenSSL 3.3 Final Release Live

The final release of OpenSSL 3.3 is now live. This is the first release in accordance with our adoption of biannual time-based releases. We would like to thank all those who contributed to the OpenSSL 3.3 release, without whom, OpenSSL…

Face-to-Face 2024 Australia

The OpenSSL Project has returned from spending a week in February sequestered in the beautiful Australian outback discussing the past, current, and future state of the project. This in-person meeting brought together the project’s paid resources and the management committee.…

Celebrating 25 Years of OpenSSL

We are pleased to announce that we have successfully distributed nearly 100 limited edition T-shirts commemorating the 25th anniversary of OpenSSL’s existence. We appreciate the support of all our communities, users, individual contributors and support customers, without which we would…

OpenSSL 3.3 Beta Release Live

The beta release of OpenSSL 3.3 is now live. This release is in accordance with our adoption of biannual time-based releases. As this is a beta release, we consider this to be a release candidate and as such encourage all…

OpenSSL at FOSDEM 24

This year, we had the privilege of participating in FOSDEM for the first time. This offered us an opportunity to engage with the open source community at the conference, share our insights, and learn from the vast pool of knowledge…

OpenSSL 3.3 Alpha Release Live

The Alpha release of OpenSSL 3.3 is now live. This release is in accordance with our adoption of biannual time-based releases. As this is an alpha release, it is intended for development and testing purposes. It represents the first step…

Upcoming Webinar: Writing Your First OpenSSL Application

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming webinar, Writing Your First OpenSSL Application. This webinar is designed to take you from an understanding of basic cryptography concepts to writing your first secure application using OpenSSL. It’s the perfect starting point…

OpenSSL 3.3 Alpha Release Date Announced

We are pleased to announce our schedule for the April release of OpenSSL 3.3. In accordance with our adoption of biannual time-based releases following the release of OpenSSL 3.2, this will be our first time-based release. The release schedule is…