Thank you to everyone who registered, as well as those who took the extra step to nominate candidates, for the Business Advisory Committees of the OpenSSL Foundation and OpenSSL Corporation. We are now at the final step - voting - which is essential to complete the process.
Start Date: December 5, 2024 Deadline for Voting: December 15, 2024 11:59pm Pacific Time (US/ Canada)
Election Committee
The Election Committee is composed of the directors of the OpenSSL Foundation and the OpenSSL Corporation. This marks the first inaugural Election Committee, tasked with overseeing and managing the election processes across various communities. The committee is dedicated to ensuring that voting is conducted fairly, transparently, and in alignment with the established rules and procedures.
Thank you to everyone who attended our Q&A sessions about the formation of Business Advisory Committees. We received valuable input from our communities, including requests to allow more time for nominations.
We have heard you, and we would like to announce that:
The nomination period has been extended until Wednesday, December 4, 2024.
The election period starts on Thursday, December 5, 2024 and ends on Sunday, December 15, 2024. You can change your vote up to the end of the election period.
This extension provides additional time to ensure everyone has the opportunity to nominate the individuals who can best represent the community’ s view and needs.
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of X.509 keys and certificates or sharpen your command-line skills?
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The OpenSSL Foundation (primarily focused on non-commercial communities) and the OpenSSL Corporation (primarily focused on commercial communities) are pleased to announce the formation of Business Advisory Committees (BAC), inviting our communities - Distributions, Committers, Small Businesses, Large Businesses, Individuals, and Academics - to actively engage in shaping the future of OpenSSL. These advisory bodies are critical in enhancing our governance structure, ensuring that the decisions reflect the diverse stakeholders involved and that our Mission and Values stay aligned with the community’s needs.
The final release of OpenSSL 3.4 is now live. We would like to thank all those who contributed to the OpenSSL 3.4 release, without whom OpenSSL would not be possible.
OpenSSL delivers the following significant new features:
Support for Integrity only cipher suites (RFC 9150)
JITTER RNG support via statically linked jitterentropy library
RFC 5755 Attribute Certificate support
FIPS indicators in support of FIPS 140-3 validation
Improved Base64 BIO input handling and error reporting
XOF Digest size reporting improvements
Windows Registry key-based directory lookup
Support for several X509v3 extensions
Support for position independent executables in the openssl app to support address space layout randomization
Please see the CHANGES.md file in the release for a full list of changes since OpenSSL 3.3
OpenSSL welcomes Amy Parker as the newest member of the
OpenSSL Foundation team. Amy joins us in the
newly created position of Chief Funding Officer, a fundraising role focused on
revenue generation through corporate sponsorship and other
charitable/non-commercial contributions. Funds raised will help the Foundation
continue to deliver on its mission of providing security and privacy tools to
everyone, everywhere.
A strategic leader with more than twenty years of senior-level fundraising
experience, Amy has worked for prestigious educational and cultural institutions
including the Wikimedia Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public
Library, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been part
of several record-setting fundraising campaigns, including the Smithsonian’s
first-ever comprehensive campaign, which raised over $1.8 billion, and the $2
billion Carolina First Campaign, which was one of the 5 largest campaigns in US
higher education at the time.
Our beta releases are considered feature complete for the release, meaning
that between now and the final release, only bug fixes are expected (if any).
Notable features of this release are available in NEWS.md
within the source tarball.
Beta releases are provided to our communities for testing and feedback
purposes. If you use OpenSSL, and particularly if you intend to upgrade to
OpenSSL 3.4 when it is released, we strongly encourage you to download this
beta release, and test it within whatever quality control mechanisms you
have, providing feedback via our GitHub issue page at
http://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues, so that we can address any
shortcomings prior to the final release
OpenSSL Corporation’s participation as a Silver Sponsor at the International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC) 18th - 20th September 2024 marked an important milestone in our continued commitment to advancing cryptographic technologies. As a critical player in secure communication, OpenSSL’s involvement highlighted our dedication to fostering collaboration, innovation, and security within the cryptographic community.
ICMC 2024 provided a valuable platform for industry leaders to engage in key discussions surrounding cryptographic standards, challenges, and innovations. Through our sponsorship, OpenSSL contributed to critical dialogues on post-quantum cryptography, regulatory compliance, and developing secure, open-source cryptographic solutions.