Security Cryptography Whatever
Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian
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S5E5 AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini
Returning champion Nicholas Carlini comes back to talk about using Claude for vulnerability research, and the current vulnpocalypse. It's all very high-brow stuff, and the gang learns some bitter…
S5E4 Standardizing Pure PQC
Standardizing cryptography involves a lot of opinions. Luckily, the gamer presidents are on it. Come on, you all know the drill.This is the last time I do this."Security Cryptography Whatever" is…
S5E3 Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor
The Python cryptography module, pyca/cryptography, has mostly been a sane wrapper around a pile of C, so that users get performant cryptography on the many, many platforms Python targets. Therefore…
S5E2 The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard
The International Association of Cryptologic Research held their regular election using secure voting software called Helios…and lost the keys to decrypt the results, leaving them with no choice but…
S5E1 Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple announced its new suite of memory security improvements from the top of the stack all the way to the bottom, so we dug through what they did and how they did it (performantly). Watch on…
S4E12 Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff
There was a bug in an OpenPGP library which finally gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. Our special guest William Woodruff joined us to help explain the vuln and indulge our…
S4E11 Alex Gaynor
We chat with friend of the pod and special guest Alex Gaynor, former deputy chief technologist at the FTC and all around good Security Person™. Join for nerdery about WebAuthn, stay for accidentally…
S4E10 Vegas, Baby!
We’re throwing a party in Vegas! Someone called it SCWPodCon last year, and the name stuck. It’s sponsored by Teleport, the infrastructure identity company. Get SSO for SSH! If Thomas was here, I’m…
S4E9 E2EE Storage Done Right with Matilda Backendal Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Truong
It seems like everyone that tries to deploy end-to-end encrypted cloudstorage seems to mess it up, often in new and creative ways. Our specialguests Matilda Backendal, Jonas Hofmann, and Kien Tuong…
S4E11 Picking Quantum Resistant Algorithms
Migrating the US government to quantum-resistant cryptography is hard, luckily the gamer presidents are on it. This episode is extremely not safe for work, nor does it reflect the political opinions…
S4E10 Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK with Matt Green and Joe Hall
Apple has pulled the availability of their opt-in iCloud end-to-end encryption feature, called Advanced Data Protection, in the UK. This doesn't only affect UK Apple users, however. To help us make…
S4E8 Cryptanalyzing LLMs with Nicholas Carlini
'Let us model our large language model as a hash function—' Sold.Our special guest Nicholas Carlini joins us to discuss differential cryptanalysis on LLMs and other attacks, just as the ones that…
S4E7 Biden’s Cyber-Everything Bagel with Carole House
Just a few days before turning off the lights, the Biden administration dropped a huge cybersecurity executive order including a lot of good stuff, that hopefully [cross your fingers, knock wood,…
S4E6 Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques
THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING...right? We got Samuel Jacques and John Schanck at short notice to answer that question plus a bunch of other about error correcting codes, logical qubits, T-gates,…
S4E5 Dual_EC_DRBG with Justin Schuh and Matthew Green
Nothing we have ever recorded on SCW has brought so much joy toDavid. However, at several points during the episode, we may have witnessed Matthew Green's soul leave his body.Our esteemed guests…
S4E4 A Little Bit of Rust Goes a Long Way with Android's Jeff Vander Stoep
You may not be rewriting the world in Rust, but if you follow the findings of the Android team and our guest Jeff Vander Stoep, you'll drive down your memory-unsafety vulnerabilities more than 2X…
S4E3 Campaign Security with [REDACTED]
With the 2024 United States Presidential Election right around the corner, we talk to an unnamed guest who has worked on cybersecurity for political campaigns in the United States since 2004. We…
S4E2 Telegram with Matthew Green
We finally have an excuse to tear down Telegram! Their CEO got arrested by the French, apparently not because the cryptography in Telegram is bad, but special guest Matt Green joined us to talk about…
S4E1 Summertime Sadness
Are you going to be in Vegas during BlackHat / DEF CON? We're hosting a mixer, sponsored by Observa! We have limited capacity, so please only register if you can actually come. Location details are…
S3E11 Zero Day Markets with Mark Dowd
We have Mark Dowd on, founder of Aziumuth Security and one of the authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment, to talk about the market for zero day vulnerabilities, and how mitigations affect…
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Security Cryptography Whatever has published 63 episodes since July 2021, covering topics in Mathematics, News.
Security Cryptography Whatever is currently active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 1h 5m.
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