Webinar: PQC and OpenSSL: Practical Integration and Deployment

[Nalini Elkins]

PQC and OpenSSL: Practical Integration and Deployment

Date: August 25, 2026

Time: 15:00 UTC - 16:00 UTC (8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern)

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Utcgy6NSRQyQGBqtu4ju9Q

This is a webinar sponsored by the nonprofit organization, Industry Network Technology Council.



OpenSSL plays a central role in securing internet communications, making it a critical platform for integrating PQC into real-world systems. As PQC algorithms move toward standardization, support for hybrid and quantum-resistant key exchange and signatures is emerging within OpenSSL and related libraries.

This session explores how PQC is being incorporated into OpenSSL, including provider-based architectures, integration with external libraries such as liboqs, and support for hybrid TLS handshakes.

Attendees will gain practical insight into configuring and testing PQC-enabled OpenSSL environments, including enabling new cipher suites, experimenting with hybrid key exchange groups, and evaluating performance impacts. The session also addresses interoperability, backward compatibility, and deployment challenges.

Speaker

Rich Salz is a highly respected Internet security architect, software engineer, and standards contributor with decades of experience in applied cryptography, secure communications, and large-scale Internet infrastructure. He has held senior technical roles at Akamai Technologies, IBM, and DataPower, where he helped design and implement security products used across enterprise and Internet environments. Rich is widely recognized for his long-standing contributions to OpenSSL, one of the world’s most widely deployed cryptographic libraries, and has played an important role in advancing secure protocol implementations and operational security practices.

In addition to his industry work, Rich has been an active leader within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), contributing to the development and deployment of Internet security standards for more than two decades. He has participated extensively in the TLS community, served as co-chair of the ACME Working Group (the protocol behind Let’s Encrypt), and has contributed to numerous RFCs and security reviews. Known for bridging standards development with real-world implementation, he brings deep expertise in cryptography, Internet protocols, and the operational challenges of deploying security technologies at Internet scale.

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[John Mattsson]

Thank for the info Nalini, I think this is interesting to a lot of people.

>quantum-resistant key exchange and signatures is emerging

>Attendees will gain practical insight into configuring and testing PQC-enabled OpenSSL environments

I hope Rich will demonstrate how to configure and test quantum-resistant authentication, which OpenSSL has supported since version 3.5. That is the only area where I have heard people encountering configuration difficulties. To my understanding, X25519MLKEM768 is enabled and prioritized by default in OpenSSL 3.5, so avoiding its use requires an explicit configuration change.

Cheers,

John Preuß Mattsson

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