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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Aug 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 Jul 202142min
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 Jun 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 Jun 202135min
