2025 was planned as an investment year — building capacity, nearly doubling the team, and deepening engagement with the global OpenSSL community, while closing the year close to break-even on commercial support revenue alone.
Since the adoption of the OpenSSL Mission, our focus has been on engaging more closely with our diverse communities. During the last year, our activities reflected what we have learnt from listening — and from working on the areas where we need to improve.
The OpenSSL Corporation provides the majority of the funding for all dedicated OpenSSL Project activities, on the basis of revenue from commercial support contracts. All of the Corporation's budget, and over 70% of the budget of our sister organisation the OpenSSL Foundation, depends on that revenue.
During 2025 we authored more than two-thirds of all project-funded contributions to the OpenSSL Library, contributed funding for the OpenSSL Jostle project, donated new testing infrastructure to the cryptsetup project, and funded the majority of the OpenSSL Conference 2025. As part of those increased activities, we grew our small team to 21 people.
We made staff more accessible by participating in a wide variety of community events across Europe and the US — and by officially opening an office in Brno and hosting the inaugural OpenSSL Conference in Prague.
Revenue and expenses stayed aligned across the full year. All 2025 revenue came from commercial support contracts — with no reliance on donations, sponsorships, or one-time income.
Ticket volume increased substantially as more customers relied on us during migrations to newer Library releases. We spread responsibility across a broader team — and responsiveness improved even as load grew.
We strengthened technical alignment and long-term sustainability across widely used cryptographic libraries — holding two in-person coordination meetings and embedding partner projects into the OpenSSL Conference.
There had never been a global OpenSSL community conference before 2025 — that changed in Prague, bringing together the people doing the real work across cryptography, cybersecurity, open source, enterprise security, and governance.
The complete Annual Report 2025 covers governance, engineering, finance, support, and community in full detail.
