After extensive feedback from our communities, OpenSSL is pleased to announce that we have formally adopted the Mission and Values Statement, and will now be aligning our activities to support these.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all those who provided feedback to us. We have reviewed all the comments and responses, which showed that a clear majority (around 70%) agreed on OpenSSL adopting the Mission and Values Statement. It was really beneficial to hear from our various communities and we will continue to seek out your feedback in the future.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 series will reach End of Life (EOL) on 11th September 2023. Users of OpenSSL 1.1.1 should consider their options and plan any actions they might need to take.
The OpenSSL project is pleased to announce that the first of the rebranded
FIPS 140-2 certificates, available exclusively to our Premium Support
Customers, have been officially issued by the CMVP. With this
significant milestone achieved, we anticipate a smooth and ongoing
rollout of the remaining and future rebrandings. If your company desires
a rebranded FIPS 140-2 validation certificate bearing your organisation’s
name, obtaining one is a straightforward task: simply secure a
premium support contract with the project and ask for a rebranded
certificate.
The OpenSSL project is pleased to announce a major update to its FIPS 140-2
certificate #4282. The certificate now validates the FIPS
provider built from the 3.0.8 release.
OpenSSL would like to thank everyone who has provided feedback on our draft
mission & values statement.
The response has been great, and the feedback is really important to us. We are
working through those responses.
We’d like to get even more feedback so we are extending the response
period until 19th May 2023.
If you haven’t already provided feedback to us, please do so by:
As a small incentive we will be randomly selecting 10 responders out of
everyone who has provided feedback and the lucky ones will receive an OpenSSL
T-shirt. (Yes this includes those who have already responded to us).
Following the successful OpenSSL 2023 face-to-face conference, OpenSSL has produced a draft mission &
values statement. Once finalised, we intend to realign all activities of the
project to ensure they reflect our agreed mission and values. Before doing so
however, we would like to obtain feedback on this statement from the public, to
ensure it represents all of our communities. By offering us your feedback, you
will help us to ensure the OpenSSL project is run in a way that reflects the
values of all of our users.
We are now less than 6 months away from the End Of Life (EOL) date for the
OpenSSL 1.1.1 series. Users of OpenSSL 1.1.1 should consider their options and
plan any actions they might need to take.
We are thrilled to inform you that the complimentary FIPS rebranding
service for our premium support customers has been extended. As part
of this non-contractual benefit, premium support customers are entitled
to one rebranding of any of our FIPS provider certificates per year,
completely free of charge.
The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC) and the OpenSSL Technical Committee
(OTC) are glad to announce our first beta release of OpenSSL 3.1. We consider
this to be a release candidate and as such encourage all OpenSSL users to build
and test against this beta release and provide feedback.