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 nerd...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
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 gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted and how other modern tools do the job much, much better. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3LfIozJo Links: William Woodruff: https://yossarian.net/ https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted/https:...| Security Cryptography Whatever
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 nerd...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
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. ...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
It seems like everyone that tries to deploy end-to-end encrypted cloud storage seems to mess it up, often in new and creative ways. Our special guests Matilda Backendal, Jonas Hofmann, and Kien Tuong Trong give us a tour through the breakage and discuss a new formal model of how to actually build a secure E2EE storage system. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sizLiK_byCw Links: https://brokencloudstorage.info/ https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1616.pdf https://www.sync.com/ https://www.pcloud.com...| Security Cryptography Whatever
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, spin around three times and spit] will last into future administrations. We snagged some time with Carole House, outgoing Special Advisor and Acting Senior Director for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Policy, National Security Council in the Biden-Harris White House, to give us a brain dump...| Security Cryptography Whatever
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, and more about Google’s new quantum computer Willow. Links: https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ https://research.google/blog/making-quantum-error-correction-work/ https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/ https://www.nature...| Security Cryptography Whatever
Nothing we have ever recorded on SCW has brought so much joy to David. However, at several points during the episode, we may have witnessed Matthew Green’s soul leave his body. Our esteemed guests Justin Schuh and Matt Green joined us to debate whether Dual_EC_DRBG was intentionally backdoored by the NSA or ‘just’ a major fuckup. Links: Dicky George at InfiltrateCon 2014, Life at Both Ends of the Barrel - An NSA Targeting Retrospective: https://youtu.be/qq-LCyRp6bU?si=MyTBKomkIVaxSy1Q D...| Security Cryptography Whatever
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, n...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
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 ...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
‘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...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
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...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
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 v...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
