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Nicola Tuveri @romen.dev · Jun 19
Honored to serve as Academic rep in OpenSSL’s Foundation BAC/TAC & Corporation TAC! 🎓🔐

I invite researchers to join discussions on the OpenSSL Communities Forum—your input matters for crypto & security decisions ahead.
openssl-communities.org/d/4cn9aVQH/w...

#OpenSSL #Crypto #Academia #OpenSource
Welcome from your Academic representative in the OpenSSL Foundation BAC & TAC, and Corporation TACs
Hello everyone,My name is Nicola Tuveri, and I’m honored to serve as the elected representative for the Academic community in the following OpenSSL governance bodies:<br>The OpenSSL Foundation Busines...
openssl-communities.org
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The OpenSSL Foundation Business Advisory Committee is entering a new round of elections!

Read more on the blog post, and consider nominating candidates to represent your community in the OpenSSL governance!

openssl-library.org/post/2025-10...
October 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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I’m going to Mozilla Festival 2025 in Barcelona this November! Join me there to help build a better, healthier internet. mzl.la/3HDm6HF
Attend Mozilla Festival
Join MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, Nov 7–9 — the global AI policy summit, digital rights event & open source festival for a healthier internet.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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July 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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🎓 Academics: OpenSSL Conference 2025 is calling for speaker proposals!
Topics in applied crypto, security, or education welcome—not just OpenSSL-specific.

Deadline: June 30
Details here: openssl-communities.org/d/JhH72pQT/c...
Banner for the OpenSSL Conference 2025 in Prague
June 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Nicola Tuveri
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📣 Academics in applied crypto & security:
The OpenSSL Conference 2025 is accepting talk proposals—no need to focus solely on OpenSSL.

If your work touches on real-world cryptography, secure systems, or education, consider submitting!

🗓️ Deadline: June 30
🌐 More info […]
Original post on infosec.town
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June 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Honored to serve as Academic rep in OpenSSL’s Foundation BAC/TAC & Corporation TAC! 🎓🔐

I invite researchers to join discussions on the OpenSSL Communities Forum—your input matters for crypto & security decisions ahead.
openssl-communities.org/d/4cn9aVQH/w...

#OpenSSL #Crypto #Academia #OpenSource
Welcome from your Academic representative in the OpenSSL Foundation BAC & TAC, and Corporation TACs
Hello everyone,My name is Nicola Tuveri, and I’m honored to serve as the elected representative for the Academic community in the following OpenSSL governance bodies:<br>The OpenSSL Foundation Busines...
openssl-communities.org
June 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reposted by Nicola Tuveri
threnody.bsky.social
anyways, here’s a how and a why explainer for alt text.

the US government decided accessibility was “catering to the weak” as part of the MAHA eugenics agenda. don’t post like those fucking nazi pricks.
An infographic titled "How To Write Alt Text" featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads "A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head." An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
May 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- The Foundation is going to the RSA Conference
🔗 https://openssl-foundation.org/post/2025-04-25-jon-at-rsa/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Foundation
April 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- The Features of 3.5: Post-quantum cryptography
🔗 https://openssl-foundation.org/post/2025-04-22-pqc/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Foundation
April 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- ICMC Recap
🔗 https://openssl-foundation.org/post/2025-04-17-icmc-recap/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Foundation
April 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- ICMC 2025: Advancing Cryptographic Assurance Through Collaboration
🔗 https://openssl-corporation.org/post/2025-04-16-icmc25-reflections/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Corporation
April 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- Nomination Deadline Extended: Technical Advisory Committees
🔗 https://openssl-corporation.org/post/2025-04-14-tac-nomination-extention/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Corporation
April 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- Nomination Deadline Extended: Technical Advisory Committees
🔗 https://openssl-foundation.org/post/2025-04-14-tac-nomination-extention/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Foundation
April 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- Nomination Deadline Extended: Technical Advisory Committees
🔗 https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-04-14-tac-nomination-extention/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Library
April 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Nicola Tuveri
nanjala.bsky.social
Stop building tech on the presumption that the state is always going to be a positive or even a neutral actor.
shobitap.org Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · Apr 11
A warning to all AI researchers: "The data analytic tools now being used to scour [students'] social media were enhanced during the Biden administration...But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended."
Inside the DHS task force scouring foreign students' social media
A critic called the review a return to “McCarthyism,” a reference to tactics used to identify alleged communists during the Cold War.
www.nbcnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- Now is the time to nominate for the Technical Advisory Committees (TACs)
🔗 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/discussions/27326

From #OpenSSL -- Recent discussions in openssl/openssl, category: announcements
April 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Nicola Tuveri
susurrusus.bsky.social
New paper(!) on the "clubcard" data structure that we're using for WebPKI revocation checks in Firefox.

A clubcard is a membership test for an r element subset of an n element set. Size is ~1.13 log(n choose r) bits. Or (better!) ~1.13 Σ log(n_i choose r_i) where i indexes blocks of a partition.
eprint.ing.bot ePrint Updates @eprint.ing.bot · Apr 8
Clubcards for the WebPKI: smaller certificate revocation tests in theory and practice (John M. Schanck) ia.cr/2025/610
Abstract. CRLite is a low-bandwidth, low-latency, privacy-preserving mechanism for distributing certificate revocation data. A CRLite aggregator periodically encodes revocation data into a compact static hash set, or membership test, which can can be downloaded by clients and queried privately. We present a novel data-structure for membership tests, which we call a clubcard, and we evaluate the encoding efficiency of clubcards using data from Mozilla’s CRLite infrastructure. As of November 2024, the WebPKI contains over 900 million valid certificates and over 8 million revoked certificates. We describe an instantiation of CRLite that encodes the revocation status of these certificates in a 6.7 MB package. This is 54% smaller than the original instantiation of CRLite presented at the 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and it is 21% smaller than the lower bound claimed in that work. A sequence of clubcards can encode a dynamic dataset like the WebPKI revocation set. Using data from late 2024 again, we find that clubcards encoding 6 hour delta updates to the WebPKI can be compressed to 26.8 kB on average—a size that makes CRLite truly practical. We have extended Mozilla’s CRLite infrastructure so that it can generate clubcards, and we have added client-side support for this system to Firefox. We report on some performance aspects of our implementation, which is currently the default revocation checking mechanism in Firefox Nightly, and we propose strategies for further reducing the bandwidth requirements of CRLite. Image showing part 2 of abstract.
April 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- OpenSSL 3.5 Final Release - Live
🔗 https://openssl-corporation.org/post/2025-04-08-openssl-35-final-release/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Corporation
April 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- OpenSSL 3.5 Final Release - Live
🔗 https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-04-08-openssl-35-final-release/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Library
April 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- OpenSSL 3.5 Final Release - Live
🔗 https://openssl-foundation.org/post/2025-04-08-openssl-35-final-release/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Foundation
April 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Nice, OpenSSL 3.5.0 is released, with builtin PQC support among many other things! Check the changelog!

github.com/openssl/open...

Original post: floss.social/@romen/11430...
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- OpenSSL 3.5.0
🔗 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/discussions/27299

From #OpenSSL -- Recent discussions in openssl/openssl, category: announcements
April 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Traveling to ICMC, thanks to #OpenSSL Foundation sponsoring my attendance!

Looking forward to hear about all PQC developments discussed at the conference this year, and mingle with folks from OpenSSL and the broader community!
April 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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#OpenSSL 📢 -- The Features of 3.5: External QUIC library interface
🔗 https://openssl-foundation.org/post/2025-04-02-quic-api/?utm_source=atom_feed

From #OpenSSL -- Blog on OpenSSL Foundation
April 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM