OpenSSL Communities

Communities - Academics

The Academics community comprises scholars, researchers, students, academic institutions, university departments, and affiliated research organisations. This group contributes to the advancement of cryptographic research, facilitates knowledge exchange, and fosters structured collaboration between academia and the broader security industry to support innovation and informed development.

Each participating academic entity designates a representative to serve as its official delegate. This delegate is authorised to cast a single vote on behalf of their institution, department, or research group in formal decision-making processes, including elections and governance actions.


Academics | Committers | Distributions | Individuals | Large Businesses | Small Businesses


Corporation Advisory: 💼 @Billy Brumley / Business ; 🛠️ @Nikolas Gauder / Technical

Foundation Advisory: 💼 @Shubham Kumar / Business ; 🛠️ @Nicola Tuveri / Technical


General Discussion

Jon Ericson
OpenSSL Conference 2026 scholarships
4 itemsLast active June 26th, 2026 04:51
Nikolas Gauder
What the Brno F2F Means for Academics — Insights from Your Representatives
2 itemsLast active June 22nd, 2026 19:10
Anton Arapov
Academics: delegate participation, action needed by Friday June 19
3 itemsLast active June 16th, 2026 19:18
Nicola Tuveri
Soliciting feedback for advice related to roadmap and feature prioritization for the OpenSSL Library
10 itemsLast active June 8th, 2026 03:13
Nikolas Gauder
Growing the OpenSSL Academic Community: Collecting Ideas
6 itemsLast active April 15th, 2026 04:44
Shubham Kumar
OpenSSL 4.0 Alpha Released - Open for Community Feedback
1 itemsLast active March 10th, 2026 16:27
Election Committee
🛠️ Technical Advisory Committee — Academics Seat Election
4 itemsLast active February 21st, 2026 03:03
Election Committee
💼 Business Advisory Committee — Academics Seat Election
4 itemsLast active February 21st, 2026 03:02
Shubham Kumar
OpenSSL new project: Jostle
4 itemsLast active February 7th, 2026 13:25
Election Committee
⏰ Reminder: Academics nominations close Sunday (Feb 1)
1 itemsLast active January 29th, 2026 11:50
Nicola Tuveri
Disabling support of explicit curves in OpenSSL via compilation options
6 itemsLast active January 16th, 2026 20:54
Jon Ericson
Foundation BAC Academics election
7 itemsLast active December 23rd, 2025 03:50
Tomas Vavra
OpenSSL moving to clang-format
1 itemsLast active November 28th, 2025 13:17
Jon Ericson
Foundation BAC nomination period has started
3 itemsLast active November 27th, 2025 12:02
Nicola Tuveri
Your Thoughts Wanted — OpenSSL Source Code Reformat
2 itemsLast active October 27th, 2025 09:04
Nicola Tuveri
AI policies
2 itemsLast active October 23rd, 2025 06:57
Nicola Tuveri
Handling of generated files
4 itemsLast active October 16th, 2025 14:53
Matt Caswell
Foundation Scholarships for the OpenSSL Conference
3 itemsLast active September 19th, 2025 07:16
Nicola Tuveri
Removal of SSLv3
11 itemsLast active August 12th, 2025 06:54
Nicola Tuveri
Release strategy: more prominence to cut-off dates (even if estimates subject to change)
3 itemsLast active July 29th, 2025 08:48
Nicola Tuveri
Interactions with OpenSSL staff during upcoming IETF 123
2 itemsLast active July 8th, 2025 12:41
Nicola Tuveri
Call for Speakers – OpenSSL Conference 2025: Academic Contributions Welcome!
3 itemsLast active July 4th, 2025 07:34
Nicola Tuveri
Proposal: GitHub label to help communities track relevant technical discussions
1 itemsLast active June 19th, 2025 16:59
Nicola Tuveri
Welcome from your Academic representative in the OpenSSL Foundation BAC & TAC, and Corporation TACs
1 itemsLast active June 19th, 2025 16:23
Nicola Tuveri
Foundation priorities for 3.6
8 itemsLast active May 11th, 2025 19:08
Election Committee
🟩 Academics Election for the OpenSSL Foundation TAC
6 itemsLast active May 11th, 2025 18:59
Election Committee
🟦 Academics Election for the OpenSSL Corporation TAC
5 itemsLast active May 11th, 2025 18:58
Election Committee
🔹 Nominate Your Institution Voting Representative
8 itemsLast active March 24th, 2025 11:54
Election Committee
Corporation BAC: Election for Academics’ Delegate
5 itemsLast active December 16th, 2024 10:11
Election Committee
Foundation BAC: Election for Academics’ Delegate
6 itemsLast active December 16th, 2024 10:10
Anton Arapov
OpenSSL Foundation & Corporation BACs Nominations Opens on November 4th!
1 itemsLast active October 30th, 2024 11:37