Using Rust for Cryptography?

Allen Wyma talks with Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO at Ockam. Allen and Mrinal talk about Ockham, a toolkit, written in Rust, to build distributed applications that provide trust across hostile networks.

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Timestamps

• [@00:10] - Mrinal’s Introduction
• [@01:01] - What is Ockam?
• [@05:04] - Building Ockam from scratch and building it open source
• [@10:45] - How Ockam provides security with modern data distribution
• [@18:15] - The reason behind building Ockam with Rust
• [@26:15] - Feedback that Ockam received from using Rust & Elixir
• [@28:04] - Concerns with Rust and Elixir
• [@29:38] - The most difficult part of working on Ockam
• [@30:42] - Competing technologies that solve the same issues as Ockam
• [@33:04] - When Ockam is not a good solution
• [@35:15] - What’s next for Ockam
• [@40:17] - Job opportunity with Ockam
• [@41:48] - Why Ockham switched From Erlang to Elixir

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma