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We are pleased to announce that the forthcoming OpenSSL 3.1 release is to be made available on 14th March 2023.

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.

The OpenSSL Management Committee and the OpenSSL Technical Committee are glad to announce the alpha release of OpenSSL 3.1.

Today we published an advisory about CVE-2022-3786 (“X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow”) and CVE-2022-3602 (“X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow”).

Please read the advisory for specific details about these CVEs and how they might impact you. This blog post will address some common questions that we expect to be asked about these CVEs.

The configuration of supported groups in TLS servers is important to limit the resource consumption of the TLS handshakes performed by the server. This blog post should give system administrators a few useful hints on how to configure the OpenSSL library and two of the most used open source HTTP servers which use the OpenSSL library for supporting the HTTPS protocol.

UPDATE: The post was updated to mention the new CVE-2022-40735 vulnerability.

With the release of OpenSSL 3.0 and the new provider architecture, some algorithms that were considered legacy by the OpenSSL team at the time were moved to the legacy provider, to be loaded optionally by those wishing to still use any of said algorithms.

The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC) on behalf of the OpenSSL Project is pleased to announce that the project is partnering with KeyPair Consulting and Acumen Security to validate OpenSSL to meet the requirements of the FIPS 140-3 standard.

After 2 years of forced covid break, OpenSSL once again presented at the ICMC22 conference. The conference was a very pleasant meet-up of the community around cryptography and cryptographic modules. There were a lot of insights, feedback, and discussions around IT security. OpenSSL gave a talk on the Current Status of OpenSSL.

OpenSSL is celebrating our FIPS 140-2 certification with a special offer for our Premium Support Customers by providing access to a free rebranding of the OpenSSL 3.0 FIPS 140-2 certificate.

See FIPS 140-2 Certificate here

The OpenSSL Management Committee on behalf of the OpenSSL Project is pleased to announce that the OpenSSL 3.0 FIPS Provider has had its FIPS 140-2 validation certificate issued by NIST & CSE.