Episode 8: Breaking Elliptic-Curve Signatures With LadderLeak!
Elliptic-curve signatures have become a highly used cryptographic primitive in secure messaging, TLS as well as in cryptocurrencies due to their high speed benefits over more traditional signature sch...
17 Nov 202042min
Episode 7: Scaling Up Secure Messaging to Large Groups With MLS!
Secure messaging protocols like Signal have succeeded at making end-to-end encryption the norm in messaging more generally. Whether you’re using WhatsApp, Wire, Facebook Messenger’s Secret Chat featur...
10 Nov 202045min
Episode 6: Proving the Existence of Vulnerabilities With Zero-Knowledge Proofs!
Zero-knowledge proofs have been a notorious research target ever since Zcash and other cryptocurrencies have invented lots of new use cases for them. Range proofs, bullet proofs, you name it – all kin...
3 Nov 202041min
Episode 5: Isogeny-based Cryptography for Dummies!
The NIST post-quantum competition has started a race for post-quantum cryptography. As a result, we’ve seen a great deal of research into alternative hard mathematical problems to use as a basis for p...
27 Okt 202048min
Episode 4: Formally Verifying Your Taxes With Catala!
Anyone who’s looked at the French civil code -- or, God forbid, the French tax code -- will tell you that it takes more than a mere human mind to decipher its meaning, given how it’s been growing and ...
20 Okt 202043min
Episode 3: BLAKE3, A Parallelizable Hash Function Using Merkle Trees!
Ever since its introduction in 2012, the BLAKE hash function has been reputed for achieving performance matching and even exceeding MD5 while still maintaining a high security margin. While the origi...
13 Okt 202045min
Episode 2: Breaking Lightweight Symmetric Cryptography!
Aside from working on a competition for standardizing post-quantum primitives, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, has also organized a lightweight cryptography ...
6 Okt 202034min
Episode 1: Post-Quantum TLS With KEMs Instead of Signatures!
TLS 1.3 has been widely praised as a major upgrade to the Transport Layer Security protocol responsible for securing the majority of Web traffic. But one area in which TLS 1.3 seems to be lacking is i...
29 Sep 202035min
