Episode 24: CryptoHack's Collection of Cryptic Conundrums!
For several years, CryptoHack has been a free platform for learning modern cryptography through fun and challenging programming puzzles. From toy ciphers to post-quantum cryptography, CryptoHack has a...
27 Helmi 202349min
Episode 23: Psychic Signatures in Java!
On April 19th 2022, Neil Madden disclosed a vulnerability in many popular Java runtimes and development kits. The vulnerability, dubbed "Psychic Signatures", lies in the cryptography for ECDSA signatu...
25 Tammi 202353min
Episode 22: Three Lessons from Threema: Breaking a Secure Messenger!
Threema is a Swiss encrypted messaging application. It has more than 10 million users and more than 7000 on-premise customers. Prominent users of Threema include the Swiss Government and the Swiss Arm...
16 Tammi 202352min
Episode 21: Proving Fundamental Equivalencies in Isogeny Mathematics!
Benjamin Wesolowski talks about his latest paper in which he mathematically proved that the two fundamental problems underlying isogeny-based cryptography are equivalent. Links and papers discussed i...
24 Elo 202146min
Episode 20: Cryptanalysis of GPRS: GEA-1 and GEA-2!
A team of cryptanalysits presents the first publicly available cryptanalytic attacks on the GEA-1 and GEA-2 algorithms. Instead of providing full 64-bit security, they show that the initial state of G...
20 Heinä 202142min
Episode 19: Cross-Protocol Attacks on TLS with ALPACA!
TLS is an internet standard to secure the communication between servers and clients on the internet, for example that of web servers, FTP servers, and Email servers. This is possible because TLS was d...
12 Heinä 202141min
Episode 18: Optimizing Cryptography for Microcontrollers!
Nadim talks with Peter Schwabe and Matthias Kannwischer about the considerations — both in terms of security and performance — when implementing cryptographic primitives for low-level and embedded pla...
23 Kesä 202136min
Episode 17: Breaking Wi-Fi With Frame Attacks!
Wi-Fi is a pretty central technology to our daily lives, whether at home or at the office. Given that so much sensitive data is regularly exchanged between Wi-Fi devices, a number of standards have be...
1 Kesä 202135min
