2025-10-09 –, Belvedere II/ Community, Contribution & the Future
The OpenSSL framework offers 3rd party provider developers the opportunity to build highly portable and agile implementations. In this talk we review the journey SafeLogic took in building an entropy provider that recently received the SP-800-90-B ESV From NIST.
Members from SafeLogic’s engineering team discuss the journey of building an entropy provider for the OpenSSL 3.x provider framework.
Jake Maynard has been in the Cyber Security industry for over twenty years. He spent over 17 years with Citrix Systems (Sponsor of OpenSSL’s 2.x FIPS canister) working on Networking, Mobile Device Management, and Virtualization technologies ultimately landing in the Cryptographic Center of Excellence working on the core cryptographic module utilized to meet FIPS requirements for the vast majority of the Citrix product suite.
Jake currently leads SafeLogic’s engineering department where his team is responsible for the Research, Design, and Implementation of future cryptographic products focused on easing customer’s journey through the FIPS compliance landscape.
Jake has been awarded two masters degrees from Nova Southeastern University. One in Information Security and the other in Computer Science. He has also been awarded two patents in the Unified Endpoint Management space.
Adam Gorak has been in the cryptography industry for 4 years as an implementation engineer and has over 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry where he has worked for companies such as Synopsys, Ericsson, and currently SafeLogic. He is currently specializing in core cryptographic module implementation to meet FIPS requirements and recently was lead implementation engineer on the 800-90B entropy source provider project for OpenSSL 3.x environments.