The OpenSSL Project has released version 3.5.0 of its widely used open-source cryptographic library, introducing new features and notable changes that signal its evolution toward future-ready cryptography. This feature release includes support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC), server-side QUIC, and tighter control over TLS behavior. Default behaviors reworked OpenSSL 3.5.0 makes several potentially incompatible changes to default settings. Notably, the default encryption cipher for the req, cms, and smime command-line utilities has changed from the aging … More →

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