Foundation
Community & Outreach
The OpenSSL Foundation connects the project with the academic community — student engagement, university outreach, and open channels for researchers to work with OpenSSL.
Open cryptography, open inquiry.
One place for OpenSSL’s cooperation with academic research institutions and university outreach — across all projects under the OpenSSL umbrella.
research.openssl.org
Corporation
Research & University Cooperation
The OpenSSL Corporation drives research activities and formal university cooperation — joint projects, cooperating labs, and applied cryptography research.
Partnerships
Cooperation agreements
OpenSSL Corporation’s office in Brno creates natural opportunities for cooperation with local universities, research labs, and students. These partnerships are covered by formal cooperation agreements.
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
- Partner Page
- OpenSSL at FI MUNI
- Students
- Thesis topics and mentored contributions for FI students.
Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology
Brno, Czech Republic
- Lab
- Security@FIT
- Partner Page
- OpenSSL at FIT BUT
- Students
- Thesis topics and mentored contributions for FIT students.
Project
NSF Safe-OSE: Addressing Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL's Providers, Primitives, and Protocols
The OpenSSL Corporation is a partner in this research project led by the Rochester Institute of Technology and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, 2026–2028.
Cooperation
Beyond formal agreements
Universities, labs, institutes, and individual academics we work with outside formal strategic partnerships — from joint research to informal academic collaboration.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Academic collaboration with RIT, United States.
Edinburgh Napier University
Academic collaboration with Edinburgh Napier, United Kingdom.
Digital TRUST Centre of Excellence
Scotland’s centre of excellence for digital trust and distributed ledger technology, anchored at Edinburgh Napier University.
North Carolina State University
Academic collaboration with NC State, United States.
We also cooperate with individual academics and researchers
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Corporation
What moving to the Historical List means for FIPS compliance, and what it does not.
On 21 September 2026 the remaining FIPS 140-2 certificates move to the CMVP Historical List. A procurement cut-off, not an expiry: what changes for new and existing systems, and …
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OpenSSL Conference 2026
Vienna House Diplomat, Prague · Czech Republic
The second OpenSSL Conference returns to Prague, with FI MU and FIT VUT joining as academic partners.
OpenAlt 2026
Brno University of Technology · Czech Republic
OpenAlt returns to Brno — the Czech open-source, open-data and open-hardware community conference. The OpenSSL Corporation joins with a booth and talks.
Žijeme{IT}
Brno · Czech Republic
Žijeme{IT} is an annual tech festival, lecture series, and networking event hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology.
Day with Industrial Partners of FI MU
Brno · Czech Republic
Day with Industrial Partners of the Faculty of Infomatics, Masaryk University
PKIC Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference 2026
Meervaart, Amsterdam · Netherlands
The PKI Consortium’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference comes to Amsterdam — three days on the migration to quantum-resistant cryptography.