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In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of potential threats is crucial. The OpenSSL project has been at the forefront of cryptographic security for decades, providing a robust toolkit that enables encryption, decryption, and other cryptographic functions. In the continuous pursuit of enhancing security and regulatory compliance, we want to share our updated ambitious FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) plans.

As you may know the OpenSSL Project recently attended ICMC 23 where we were given the opportunity to update our peers about the rapid fundamental changes the project has gone through in 2023.

To summarize here are the key takeaways from our presentation:

As a part of our mission to be more open and engaged with our community, OpenSSL is pleased to announce we will be attending the International Cryptographic Module Conference 2023 or ICMC 2023 in Ottawa, Canada this week. ICMC 23 is building on a decade of cybersecurity thought leadership as the industry faces widespread changes and emerging threats in commercial cryptography.

The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC) represents the official voice of the project and is ultimately responsible for all decisions regarding management and strategic direction of the project.

You may have already seen the recent blog post about Mark Cox leaving the OMC.

OpenSSL 1.1.1 series has reached its End of Life (EOL). As such it will no longer receive publicly available security fixes.

This is the end of an era for OpenSSL with the last of the original founders of the project passing on the torch to the current leadership of the project for the next phase of its evolution.

At OpenSSL, we’re always learning and taking small steps, informed by both fresh ideas and the feedback we receive. Today, we’d like to share a couple of updates we hope will make things clearer and more collaborative for our community.

These updates are part of our effort to align more closely with, and live by, our Mission and Values.

We recently published our mission statement and values which included that our governance should be transparent. We’ve not really talked much about how we’re financed and where the money goes, so let’s make a start on changing that.