Everybody Is Losing Their Minds About AI Math And Crypto
The gang talks about what AI getting Good At Math might mean for cryptography, and why public-key cryptography probably isn’t ending. David...
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20 of 68 episodesAI Lattice Proofs with Chris Peikert
The robots are at it again, and this time they’re solving, and breaking(?), math and cryptography! Things have been happening in the lattice...
An Odyssey of Lattice Cryptography with Mark Schultz-Wu
We invited Mark Schultz-Wu on the podcast to talk about the history of lattice cryptography. When lattices are explained in plain english, t...
Trump's Golden Post-Quantum EO(s)
The dear leader has actually bleated out some not-dumb executive orders (EOs) to accelerate adoption of post-quantum crypto for the US gover...
Facing the Vulnpocalypse with lcamtuf
We talk to Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) about the vulnpocalypse and if we even need fuzzers anymore. This episode may be export controlled at a...
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 al...
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...
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 cryptogr...
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 ke...
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 th...
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 W...
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 Perso...
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 i...
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 cloud storage seems to mess it up, often in new and creative ways. Our spec...
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...
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 doe...
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 different...
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...
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 oth...
Dual_EC_DRBG with Justin Schuh and Matthew Green
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...