Episode 16: Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers!
Contact discovery is a core feature in popular mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram that lets users grant access to their address book in order to discover which of their contac...
24 Maj 202146min
Episode 15: Bringing Secure Multiparty Computation to the Real World!
Secure multi-party computation is a fascinating field in cryptography, researching how to allow multiple parties to compute secure operations over inputs while keeping those inputs private. This makes...
26 Apr 202146min
Episode 14: Schnorr, Factoring and Lattices!
On March 1st, 2021, a curious paper appeared on the Cryptology ePrint Archive: senior cryptographer Claus Peter Schnorr submitted research that claims to use lattice mathematics to improve the fast fa...
30 Mars 202146min
Episode 13: Zero-Knowledge STARKs in the Real World!
Zero-Knowledge proofs have broadened the realm of use cases for applied cryptography over the past decade, from privacy-enhanced cryptocurrencies to applications in voting, finance, protecting medical...
14 Mars 202147min
Episode 12: Special Real World Crypto 2021 Pre-Conference Coverage!
Every year, the IACR Real World Cryptography symposium brings together researchers, engineers and practitioners in applied cryptography to discuss cryptography that matters, in the real world. To me, ...
7 Jan 20211h 37min
Episode 11: Breaking the Rainbow Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate!
The race for post-quantum cryptographic signature primitives is in its final lap over at NIST, which recently announced DILITHIUM, FALCON and Rainbow as the three signature primitive finalists. But a ...
8 Dec 202038min
Episode 10: Exploiting Authenticated Encryption Key Commitment!
Authenticated encryption such as AES-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305 is used in a wide variety of applications, including potentially in settings for which it was not originally designed. A question given re...
1 Dec 202046min
Episode 9: Off-the-Record Messaging and PKI Implementations!
Before there was Signal, before there was WhatsApp, the realm of secure encrypted messaging was ruled by the Off-the-Record secure messaging protocol, created as an alternative to PGP that introduced ...
20 Nov 202041min
