Paul Dale
BAC Member at OpenSSL
Tasmania, Australia
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Paul Dale is a highly experienced software engineer and cryptography specialist based in Tasmania, Australia, with nine years of modern experience and a multi-decade career history spanning embedded systems, high-performance computing, and security. He is a long-standing OpenSSL committer, former Technical Committee member and fellow who led OpenSSL’s recent FIPS 140 certifications and now serves on the Business Advisory Committees for OpenSSL entities. Paul blends deep mathematical and low-level C expertise with practical embedded and systems engineering—having implemented compact RSA and assembly-optimized crypto for resource-constrained devices. At Oracle he has served as Distinguished Architect and now consults as an applied cryptographer, advising on enterprise crypto toolkits and formal compliance. His GitHub contributions include security-critical fixes and tests to the flagship openssl/openssl library, reflecting hands-on work that protects real-world TLS deployments. Quick to master new domains, he thrives on the hardest problems where rigorous math, secure coding and operational compliance intersect.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (7)
crypto10
crypt10
memory-management10
security-testing10
c-programming10
cryptography10
asn18
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openssl/openssl
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
TLS/SSL and crypto library
Role in this project:
Back-end Security Engineer
Back-end Security EngineerContributions:6466 reviews, 1055 commits, 3042 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions focus on enhancing the security of the OpenSSL library, specifically within the context of cryptographic protocols and operations. They implemented bug fixes, particularly related to memory management and reference counting within the EVP and ASN.1 modules, demonstrating a strong understanding of C programming and low-level memory issues. Furthermore, the user added tests to ensure the correct function of security-critical algorithms, specifically addressing potential vulnerabilities and ensuring proper protection of secrets, aligning well with a security engineering role.
crypto-librarycryptographyssltlscrypto
openssl/general-policies
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Mirror of the repository for general policies, governed by the OpenSSL Foundation and the OpenSSL Corporation
Contributions:95 reviews, 32 commits, 28 PRs in 10 months
securitycommitteepoliciesomcopenssl
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