ASecuritySite Podcast

Brent Waters is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the Director of the Cryptography Lab at NTT Research.  He graduated from the UCL in 2000, then completed a PhD at Princeton University in 2004. After this, he moved on to Stanford as a postdoc. Overall, Brent was the first to propose Attribute-based Encryption (ABE) and also the first to outline functional encryption. He was also...

Well, as if cybersecurity doesn't have enough acronyms. There's RIP, OSPF, TCP, IP, SSH, AES, and so many others. Now, there are three really important ones to remember: ML-KEM (Module Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism), ML-DSA (Module Lattice-Based Signature Standard) and SLH-DSA (Stateless Hash-based Digital Signature Standard). ML-KEM is defined in the FIPS 203 standard, ML-DSA as FIPS...

The cybersecurity world is changing, and where the signature methods of RSA, ECDSA and EdDSA are likely to be replaced by FIPS 204 (aka ML-DSA Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard— Dilithium) and FIPS 205 (aka SLH-DSA (Stateless Hash-based Digital Signature Standard — SPHINCS+) https://medium.com/@billatnapier/so-what-is-a-prehash-and-what-has-it-to-do-with-post-quantum-signatures-bf781...

In cybersecurity, there are so many acronyms, and to be an expert, you really need to dig underneath the methods and understand how they work. One weak area of the industry is in the usage of MACs (Message Authentication Codes). With the public-key signing, we use a public key and a private key, where the private key will digitally sign a hash of the message, and where the public key is verified t...

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Phillip Rogaway was a Professor at the University of California, Davis, and who has advanced so many areas of cryptography. He was the first to be awarded Levchin prize in 2016. Phillip has over 43,000 citations to his work, including classic papers on random oracles, symmetric key modes, garbled circuits, secure computation, and format-preserving encryption. Along with his passion for research, h...

Like it or not, AI is on the move and now competing with human brain power for its place in our world. We must thus understand the place of LLMs (Large Language Models) in areas such as cybersecurity and in planning towards hybrid systems that integrate both humans and AI within our corporate infrastructures.  https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/humans-v-ai-in-cybersecurity-52709be...

This week, in my lecture, I will outline one of the most amazing methods ever created in computer science: the Diffie-Hellman method. It was first outlined by Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman in 1976 in a paper that built the foundation of our modern world of cybersecurity.   https://billatnapier.medium.com/after-48-years-its-a-long-goodbye-to-the-diffie-hellman-method-a6976a562bfe  

And, so George Orwell projected a world where every single part of our lives was monitored and controlled by Big Brother. Arthur C Clark outlined the day when machines focused solely on a goal — even if it was to the detriment of human lives. And, Isaac Asimov outlined a world where machines would have to be programmed with rules so that they could not harm a human. The Rise of the Machine With th...

YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDn0Tkhi8zw   Yuriy Polyakov is the Vice President of Cryptography and a Principal Scientist at Duality Technologies. His research interests include applied lattice-based cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, and privacy-preserving machine learning. He is also a co-founder of the open-source PALISADE Homomorphic Encryption Software Library,...

Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Y_kya4lR8   Kurt Rohloff is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and a co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies.  He is also a co-founder of the open-source PALISADE Homomorphic Encryption Software Library, and a co-founder of the  OpenFHE library.

Thomas Prest is a cryptography researcher at PQShield and previously worked with Thales. He completed his PhD at the École Normale Supérieure and focuses on post-quantum cryptography and discrete algorithms. Thomas was one of the co-authors of the FALCON digital signature method and has published widely in related areas of PQC.

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The podcast title has never been more fitting: our guest for episode 20 of Talking with Tech Leaders is a leading thinker, leading innovator and leading academic. Bill Buchanan is not only Professor of Cryptography at Edinburgh Napier University but also an Officer of the British Empire – awarded in 2017 for services to cybersecurity. The main podcast is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...

Amit Gupta is the founder and CEO of Acubed. IT, which is a company which creates innovative and secure cross-security domain solutions for customers such as the UK government. One of their key innovations is the Cross Domain Hybrid Application (CDHA) framework, and which aims to break down the barriers in sharing trusted information across multiple partner agencies.

Please excuse the poor quality of my microphone, as the wrong microphone was selected.   In research, we are all just building on the shoulders of true giants, and there are few larger giants than Leslie Lamport — the creator of LaTeX. For me, every time I open up a LaTeX document, I think of the work he did on creating LaTeX, and which makes my research work so much more productive. If I was stil...

Daniel J Bernstein ( djb ) was born in 1971. He is a USA/German citizen and a Personal Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and a Research Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At the tender age of 24 — in 1995 — he, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — brought a case against the US Government related to the protection of free speech (Bernstein v. United States:...

Jan is the CTO and a Cryptographer at DFINITY, and, since 1998, he has consistently produced research outputs of rigour, novelty and sheer brilliance [here]. He was recently awarded the Levchin Prize at Real World Crypto 2024 - along with Anna Lysyanskaya. Jan's research core happened when he was hosted in the IBM Zurich Research Lab, but has since moved to DFINITY, and is still producing research...

Ted Miracco is the CEO of Approov and which is Scottish/US company that is headquartered in Edinburgh. Miracco has over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, defence electronics, RF/microwave circuit design, semiconductors and electronic design automation (EDA). He co-founded and served as CEO of Cylynt, which focuses on intellectual property and compliance protection

Troy is a world-leading cybersecurity professional. He created and runs the Have I Been Pwned? Web site, and which contains details of the most significant data breaches on the Internet.  Along with this, he has developed other security tools, such as ASafaWeb, which automated the security analysis of ASP.NET Web sites. Troy is based in Australia and has an extensive blog at https://www.troyhunt.c...