Security Cryptography Whatever

Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian

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

  1. -4 d.

    AI Lattice Proofs with Chris Peikert

    The robots are at it again, and this time they’re solving, and breaking(?), math and cryptography! Things have been happening in the lattice corner including new leapfrogging complexity results in the closest vector problem (CVP), AND a possible poly-time quantum attack against the dihedral coset problem (DCP) that made everyone freak out for about a week (UPDATE: looks like it’s busted: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693). ALSO, there was an important distinguisher attack against Classic McEliece, which on its face doesn’t sound like a big deal, unless you’re familiar with the track record of efficient distinguishers in the history of code-based cryptography… 😱 To help us make sense  of all this we are joined again by OG friend of the pod Chris Peikert! We had trouble with his audio but tried our best to fix it, apologies. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/08/26/ai-lattice-proofs-with-chris-peikert/ Links: - https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/ - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/ten-proofs-oai.pdf - https://x.com/ChrisPeikert/status/2083534770403750025 - https://bsky.app/profile/chrispeikert.bsky.social/post/3msp3boueis2z - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wordcel-shape-rotator-mathcel - Chen 2024: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555 - https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1630 - https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693 - CVP within n^(1/2-ɛ) -  : https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1655 "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

  2. 27. juli

    An Odyssey of Lattice Cryptography with Mark Schultz-Wu

    We invited Mark Schultz-Wu on the podcast to talk about the history of lattice cryptography. When lattices are explained in plain english, they are actually quite simple! I don't think any of us have ever seen Deirdre so happy. If you're watching the video version, there's a section that's 6.1 minutes long with no cuts and consists just of Deirdre vigorously agreeing with what Mark is saying while smiling. What a time to be alive. Anyway, we are hosting another happy hour in Vegas between Black Hat and DEF CON! It's sponsored by Teleport! Thank you to Teleport, and dear readers, you should go check them out. Check out our socials or the podcast site to register. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/07/27/lattices-with-mark-schultz-wu/ Links: Mark's IETF Post https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/HznE1IcCjstEjhh4M1p59qX1JlQ/NTRU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRUThe original lattices are hard paper https://www.scirp.org/reference/referencespapers?referenceid=3401227The original LWE for cryptography paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03703Entropic LWE https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/119Dilithium round 3 submission: https://pq-crystals.org/dilithium/data/dilithium-specification-round3.pdfRecent attacks on Classic McEliece: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1694Lectures on post-quantum cryptography from Alfred Menezes (an originator of elliptic curve cryptography) https://www.youtube.com/@cryptography101-alfredFalcon https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/Presentations/2024/falcon/images-media/prest-falcon-pqc2024.pdfRegev: https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/#researchTightness in Proofs: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/360.pdf "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

  3. 2. juli

    Trump's Golden Post-Quantum EO(s)

    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_F6P8 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/07/02/trumps-golden-post-quantum-eos Links: - The EO https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/securing-the-nation-against-advanced-cryptographic-attacks/ - CNSA2 https://media.defense.gov/2022/Sep/07/2003071836/-1/-1/0/CSI_CNSA_2.0_FAQ_.PDF - https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/30/2003728741/-1/-1/0/CSA_CNSA_2.0_ALGORITHMS.PDF - https://www.ecdsa.fail/ - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline/ - https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/ - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/neutral-atom-quantum-computers/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedRAMP - https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/ushering-in-the-next-frontier-of-quantum-innovation/ - https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/ - https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9861 "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

  4. 15. juni

    Facing the Vulnpocalypse with lcamtuf

    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=uI9CSgB4p9o Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/06/14/facing-the-vulnpocalypse-with-lcamtuf https://github.com/google/aflhttps://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1tqtenf/anthropic_said_today_that_mythos_is_coming_to_all/https://github.com/google/clusterfuzzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradoxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombinghttps://curl.se/https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/025_sack.patch.sighttps://www.wired.com/story/last-pass-vulnerability-password-safe/https://nostarch.com/tangledwebhttps://nostarch.com/silence.htmhttps://nostarch.com/practical-doomsdayhttps://nostarch.com/secret-life-of-circuitshttps://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

  5. 26. mars

    AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini

    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=_IDbFLu9Ug8 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/ Links: - https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/ - https://unpromptedcon.org/ - Black-hat LLMs   - https://red.anthropic.com/2026/firefox/ "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

  6. 10. mars

    Standardizing Pure PQC

    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)

  7. 2. feb.

    Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor

    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 would be moving away from OpenSSL when supporting new functionality and exploring adding other backends instead. We invited them on to tell us about what has happened to OpenSSL, even after the investments and improvements following Heartbleed. No guests on this pod represent anyone besides themselves. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEKBHI3rodY Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/02/01/python-cryptography-breaks-up-with-openssl Links: - https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/ - Py Cryptography: https://cryptography.io - https://archive.openssl-conference.org/2025/presentations/Alex_Gaynor_Paul_Kehrer_The_Python_Cryptographic_Authoritys_OpenSSL_Experience.pdf - https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/16/alex-gaynor/ - https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-libs/libsdl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIguklWwx0 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9180/ - https://docs.openssl.org/3.3/man3/OSSL_PARAM/ - https://openssl.foundation/ - https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/17064 - https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_132_openssl_performance_still_under_scrutiny - https://github.com/topazproject/topaz - https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1069 - https://crystalhotsauce.com/ - https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/#CVE-2025-15467 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus - https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/aa202db1d7091b88b80f0a58c630c5c1aefc817d - https://www.ibm.com/products/open-sdk-for-rust-aix - https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/corporate-support-xz/ - https://peps.python.org/ - https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed448/ - https://go.dev/blog/fips140 - https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/roll-your-own-crypto/ "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

  8. 31.12.2025

    The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard

    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 not. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euw_yqAQFI8 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/12/30/iacr-helios Links: - NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/cryptography-group-lost-election-results.html - IACR Memo: https://www.iacr.org/news/item/27138 - https://www.iacr.org/elections/ - https://vote.heliosvoting.org/faq - https://github.com/Election-Tech-Initiative/electionguard - https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec08/tech/full_papers/adida/adida.pdf - https://www.iacr.org/elections/eVoting/about-helios.html - https://www.iacr.org/elections/eVoting/ - https://crypto.ethz.ch/publications/files/CrGeSc97b.pdf - https://electionguard.vote/ - https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1901 - https://freeandfair.us/blog/open-free-election-technology/ - https://www.starvoting.org/ - https://mbernhard.com/ "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

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

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    Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian
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    2021 - 2026
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