
Security Cryptography Whatever
Some cryptography & security people talk about security, cryptography, and whatever else is happening.
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Apr 13, 2022 • 1h 11min
Cancellable Crypto Takes and Real World Crypto
Live from Amsterdam, it's cancellable crypto hot takes! A fun little meme, plus a preview of the Real World Crypto program!Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2022/04/12/cancellable-crypto-takes-and-real-world-crypto/Links:Tony's twete: https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1512539700220805124Real World Crypto 2022: https://rwc.iacr.org/2022Merch! https://merch.scwpodcast.comFind us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrian"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Mar 13, 2022 • 1h 10min
Lattices and Michigan Football with Chris Peikert
We're back! With an episode on lattice-based cryptography, with Professor Chris Peikert of the University of Michigan, David's alma mater. When we recorded this, Michigan football had just beaten Ohio for the first time in a bajillion years, so you get a nerdy coda on college football this time!Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2022/03/12/lattices-and-michigan-football-with-chris-peikert/Slides: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert/pubs/slides-qcrypt.pdfLinks:He Gives C-Sieves on the CSIDH: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/725Lattice-based Cryptography: https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/papers/pqc.pdfNIST PQC Competition: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography The 2nd Bar Ilan Winter School on Cryptography Lattice- Based Cryptography and Applications: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Vt-7cSFnw2OmpCmPLLwSx0-Yqb2ptqOA Decade of Lattice Cryptography: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/939.pdfFind us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrian"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Jan 29, 2022 • 59min
Biscuits with Geoffroy Couprie
We've trashed JWTs, discussed PASETO, Macaroons, and now, Biscuits! Actually, multiple iterations of Biscuits! Pairings and gamma signatures and Datalog, oh my! 🍪 Transcript:https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2022/01/29/biscuits-with-geoffroy-couprie/Links:Biscuits V2: https://www.biscuitsec.orgExperiments iterating on Biscuits: https://github.com/biscuit-auth/biscuit/tree/master/experimentationsApache Pulsar: https://pulsar.apache.orgSpec: https://github.com/biscuit-auth/biscuit/blob/master/SPECIFICATIONS.mdFind us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrian"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

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Jan 15, 2022 • 1h 18min
Tailscale with Avery Pennarun and Brad Fitzpatrick
“Can I Tailscale my Chromecast?” You love Tailscale, I love Tailscale, we loved talking to Avery Pennarun and Brad Fitzpatrick from Tailscale about, I dunno, Go generics. Oh, and TAILSCALE! And DNS. And WASM.Transcript:https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2022/01/15/tailscale-with-avery-pennarun-brad-fitzpatrick/People:Avery Pennarun (@apenwarr)Brad Fitzpatrick (@bradfitz)Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum)Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf)David Adrian (@davidcadrian)@SCWPodLinks:DERP server: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/main/derphttps://xtermjs.org/The Tail at Scale : https://research.google/pubs/pub40801/Raft: https://raft.github.io/Litestream: https://litestream.io/MagicDNS: https://tailscale.com/kb/1081/magicdns/Netstack: https://github.com/google/netstack"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Dec 29, 2021 • 1h 11min
The feeling's mutual: mTLS with Colm MacCárthaigh
We recorded this months ago, and now it's finally up! Colm MacCárthaigh joined us to chat about all things TLS, S2N, MTLS, SSH, fuzzing, formal verification, implementing state machines, and of course, DNSSEC.Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/12/29/the-feeling-s-mutual-mtls-with-colm-maccarthaigh/Find us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrian"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Dec 22, 2021 • 1h 22min
Holiday Call-in Spectacular!
Happy New Year! Feliz Navidad! Merry Yule! Happy Hannukah! Pour one out for the log4j incident responders!We did a call-in episode on Twitter Spaces and recorded it, so that's why the audio sounds different. We talked about BLOCKCHAIN/Web3 (blech), testing, post-quantum crypto, client certificates, ssh client certificates, threshold cryptography, U2F/WebAuthn, car fob attacks, geese, and more!Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/12/21/holiday-call-in-spectacular/Find us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrian "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Dec 5, 2021 • 1h 21min
WireGuard with Jason Donenfeld
Hey, a new episode! We had a fantastic conversation with Jason Donenfeld, creator of our favorite modern VPN protocol: WireGuard! We touched on kernel hacking, formal verification, post-quantum cryptography, developing with disassemblers, and more!Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/12/05/wireguard-with-jason-donenfeld/Links: WireGuard: https://www.wireguard.comTamarin: https://tamarin-prover.github.ioIDApro: https://hex-rays.com/ida-proNIST PQC: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/round-3-submissionsWireGuard Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Oct 26, 2021 • 1h 15min
PAKEs, oPRFs, algebra with George Tankersley
A conversation that started with PAKEs (password-authenticated key exchanges) and touched on some cool math things: PRFs, finite fields, elliptic curve groups, anonymity protocols, hashing to curve groups, prime order groups, and more. With special guest, George Tankersley!Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/10/26/pakes-oprfs-algebra-with-george-tankersley/Links: SRP deprecation: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/should-you-use-srpOPAQUE: https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque-06.htmlobfs: https://github.com/shadowsocks/simple-obfsElligator: https://elligator.cr.yp.toHash to Curve: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve-12.htmlMagic Wormhole: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormholeBiscuits: https://github.com/CleverCloud/biscuitRistretto: https://ristretto.groupMonero signature bug: https://www.getmonero.org/ru/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.htmlSIDH smooth-order supersingular curves: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-53018-4_21"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Sep 20, 2021 • 1h 15min
"Patch, Damnit!"
A lot of fixes got pushed in the past week! Please apply your updates! Apple, Chrome, Matrix, Azure, and more nonsense.Transcript:https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/09/20/patch-damnit/Find us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrianLinks!The accuvant story in MIT Technology ReviewAll the Apple platforms patched FORCEDENTRY no-click 0-dayChrome patched some 0-days that were being exploited in the wildPASETO update "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Sep 6, 2021 • 1h 34min
How to be a Certificate Authority with Ryan Sleevi
Not the hero the internet deserves, but the one we need: it's Ryan Sleevi!We get into the weeds on becoming a certificate authority, auditing said authorities, DNSSEC, DANE, taking over country code top level domains, Luxembourg, X.509, ASN.1, CBOR, more JSON (!), ACME, Let's Encrypt, and more, on this extra lorge episode with the web PKI's Batman.Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/09/06/how-to-be-a-certificate-authority-with-ryan-sleevi/Find us at:https://twitter.com/scwpodhttps://twitter.com/durumcrustulumhttps://twitter.com/tqbfhttps://twitter.com/davidcadrian"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)