Security Cryptography Whatever

Feb 24 2025 53 ep. 65 mins 439
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Some cryptography & security people talk about security, cryptography, and whatever else is happening.

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Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK with Matt Green and Joe Hall

Feb 24 2025 48 mins  
Apple has pulled the availability of their opt-in iCloud end-to-end encryption feature, called Advanced Data Protection, in the UK. This doesn't only affect UK Apple users, however. To help us make sense of this surprising move from the fruit company, we got Matt Green, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins, and Joe Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society, on the ho

Cryptanalyzing LLMs with Nicholas Carlini

Jan 28 2025 80 mins  
'Let us model our large language model as a hash function—' Sold. Our special guest Nicholas Carlini joins us to discuss differential cryptanalysis on LLMs and other attacks, just as the ones that made OpenAI turn off some features, hehehehe. Watch episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vZ64xPI2Rc0 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/01/28/cryptanalyzing-llms-

Biden’s Cyber-Everything Bagel with Carole House

Jan 20 2025 57 mins  
Just a few days before turning off the lights, the Biden administration dropped a huge cybersecurity executive order including a lot of good stuff, that hopefully [cross your fingers, knock wood, spin around three times and spit] will last into future administrations. We snagged some time with Carole House, outgoing Special Advisor and Acting Senior Director for Cybersecurity and C

Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques

Dec 18 2024 53 mins  
THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING...right? We got Samuel Jacques and John Schanck at short notice to answer that question plus a bunch of other about error correcting codes, logical qubits, T-gates, and more about Google's new quantum computer Willow. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/18/quantum-willow Links: - https://blog.google/technology/research/googl

Dual_EC_DRBG with Justin Schuh and Matthew Green

Dec 07 2024 67 mins  
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 Matthew Green's soul leave his body. Our esteemed guests Justin Schuh and Matt Green joined us to debate whether `Dual_EC_DRBG` was intentionally backdoored by the NSA or 'just' a major fuckup. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.c

A Little Bit of Rust Goes a Long Way with Android's Jeff Vander Stoep

Oct 15 2024 73 mins  
You may not be rewriting the world in Rust, but if you follow the findings of the Android team and our guest Jeff Vander Stoep, you'll drive down your memory-unsafety vulnerabilities more than 2X below the industry average over time! 🎉 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/10/15/a-little-bit-of-rust-goes-a-long-way/ Links: - https://security.googleblog.com/20

Campaign Security with [REDACTED]

Oct 13 2024 83 mins  
With the 2024 United States Presidential Election right around the corner, we talk to an unnamed guest who has worked on cybersecurity for political campaigns in the United States since 2004. We recorded this in late August, 2024. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/10/13/campaign-security/ Links: - Active Measures by Thomas Rind: https://us.macmillan.com/book

Telegram with Matthew Green

Sep 06 2024 64 mins  
We finally have an excuse to tear down Telegram! Their CEO got arrested by the French, apparently not because the cryptography in Telegram is bad, but special guest Matt Green joined us to talk about how the cryptography is bad anyway, and you probably shouldn't use Telegram as a secure messenger of any kind! Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/09/06/telegram

Summertime Sadness

Jul 24 2024 57 mins  
Are you going to be in Vegas during BlackHat / DEF CON? We're hosting a mixer, sponsored by Observa! We have limited capacity, so please only register if you can actually come. Location details are in the confirmation email. Tickets will be released in batches, so if you get waitlisted, there's a good chance you still get in. Looking forward to seeing you in Vegas! Ticket Link: htt

Zero Day Markets with Mark Dowd

Jun 24 2024 85 mins  
We have Mark Dowd on, founder of Aziumuth Security and one of the authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment, to talk about the market for zero day vulnerabilities, and how mitigations affect monetizing offensive security work. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/06/24/mdowd/ Links: https://www.azimuthsecurity.com/https://www.vigilantlabs.com/https://g