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Security Cryptography Whatever

Security Cryptography Whatever

Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian 65 Episodes Jul 2, 2026

Some cryptography & security people talk about security, cryptography, and whatever else is happening.

Episodes

Trump's Golden Post-Quantum EO(s)
Trump's Golden Post-Quantum EO(s) Jul 2, 2026 3397 The dear leader has actually bleated out some not-dumb executive orders (EOs) to accelerate adoption of post-quantum crypto for the US government! This looks to be in response to a flurry of advancements in quantum computing and quantum attack algorithms a few months ago. We cram legalize into our eyeballs— plus, ECDSA.fail!Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwQpN_F6P8Transcript: h
Facing the Vulnpocalypse with lcamtuf
Facing the Vulnpocalypse with lcamtuf Jun 15, 2026 4289 We talk to Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) about the vulnpocalypse and if we even need fuzzers anymore. This episode may be export controlled at a future date.Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9CSgB4p9oTranscript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/06/14/facing-the-vulnpocalypse-with-lcamtufhttps://github.com/google/aflhttps://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1tqtenf/anthrop
AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini
AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini Mar 25, 2026 4560 Returning champion Nicholas Carlini comes back to talk about using Claude for vulnerability research, and the current vulnpocalypse. It's all very high-brow stuff, and the gang learns some bitter lessons.Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDbFLu9Ug8Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/Links:- https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/-
Standardizing Pure PQC
Standardizing Pure PQC Mar 9, 2026 494 Standardizing cryptography involves a lot of opinions. Luckily, the gamer presidents are on it. Come on, you all know the drill.This is the last time I do this."Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)
Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor
Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor Feb 1, 2026 4358 The Python cryptography module, pyca/cryptography, has mostly been a sane wrapper around a pile of C, so that users get performant cryptography on the many, many platforms Python targets. Therefore its maintainers, Alex Gaynor and Paul Kehrer, have become intimately familiar with OpenSSL. Recently, they declared that after many years of trying to make it work, they announced pyca/cryptography woul
The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard
The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard Dec 30, 2025 3409 The International Association of Cryptologic Research held their regular election using secure voting software called Helios…and lost the keys to decrypt the results, leaving them with no choice but to throw out the vote and call a new election. Hilarity ensues. We welcome special guest Matt Bernhard who actually works on secure voting systems to explain which bits are homomorphically additive or
Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement Oct 31, 2025 3405 Apple announced its new suite of memory security improvements from the top of the stack all the way to the bottom, so we dug through what they did and how they did it (performantly). Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJwOI2PliUTranscript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/10/31/apple-mieLinks:- https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/- Secure Page
Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff
Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff Aug 22, 2025 4267 There was a bug in an OpenPGP library which finally gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. Our special guest William Woodruff joined us to help explain the vuln and indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted and how other modern tools do the job much, much better.Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3LfIozJoTranscript: https://s
Alex Gaynor
Alex Gaynor Aug 16, 2025 5121 We chat with friend of the pod and special guest Alex Gaynor, former deputy chief technologist at the FTC and all around good Security Person™. Join for nerdery about WebAuthn, stay for accidentally melting down GitHub APIs around November 2020! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoGvyvsSi4Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/16/alex-gaynorLinks:- https://kn
Vegas, Baby!
Vegas, Baby! Jul 29, 2025 3656 We’re throwing a party in Vegas! Someone called it SCWPodCon last year, and the name stuck. It’s sponsored by Teleport, the infrastructure identity company. Get SSO for SSH! If Thomas was here, I’m sure he’d tell you that Fly.io uses Teleport internally. Oh also there's some thing called Black..pill? Black Pool? Something like that happening in Vegas, with crypto talks, so we chatted about th
E2EE Storage Done Right with Matilda Backendal Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Truong
E2EE Storage Done Right with Matilda Backendal Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Truong May 19, 2025 3745 It seems like everyone that tries to deploy end-to-end encrypted cloudstorage seems to mess it up, often in new and creative ways. Our specialguests Matilda Backendal, Jonas Hofmann, and Kien Tuong Truong give us a tour through the breakage and discuss a new formal model of how to actually build a secure E2EE storage system.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sizLiK_byCwTranscript: https://security
Picking Quantum Resistant Algorithms
Picking Quantum Resistant Algorithms Mar 23, 2025 896 Migrating the US government to quantum-resistant cryptography is hard, luckily the gamer presidents are on it. This episode is extremely not safe for work, nor does it reflect the political opinions of, well, anybody."Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

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