ASecuritySite Podcast

 Here Harry McLaren talks with Rich Macfarlane and Bill Buchanan. What's the key to finding a job within Cybersecurity? A balance of technical competencies (networking, OS, services, programming, and so on) and human intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills). The slides are here . For Splunk/Cyber&Data: here .

This is a basic introduction to the Building Trust podcast.

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE takes us back through the patents that gave rise to the security for the internet as we know it.

In this podcast, we will outline some of the design choices that Satoshi Nakamoto made for the hashing of the private key to the public ID, especially on the selection of the two hashing methods of SHA-256 and RIPEMD160.

So how do we create a world where we can store our secrets in a trusted and then reveal them when required? Let's say I predict the outcome of an election, but I don't want to reveal my prediction until after the election. Well, I could store a commitment to my prediction, and then at some time in the future, I could reveal it to you, and you can check against the commitment I have made. Anyone wh...

Note: TeamViewer is not a malicious piece of software when normally used. The scammer wanted to install a remote desktop on my machine with it.

Jean-Philippe (JP) Aumasson is a true innovator in cryptography, and especially in the creation of fast, secure and light-weight hashing methods. He co-designed the BLAKE hashing method [ here ], and which is currently the fastest secure cryptographic hashing function. Along with this, he worked with Daniel J Bernstein on SipHash [ here ], and created the Cryptography Coding Standard. JP also crea...

Neal I. Koblitz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. He is a co-inventor of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). His original paper was published in 1987 and entitled "Elliptic curve cryptosystems" [1]. Overall, ECC is one of the greatest breakthroughs in cryptography and which has largely replaced discrete logarithm methods in key exchange and has replaced the RSA method i...

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE talks with Professor Keith Martin, from the Royal Holloway, about the intersection of information security and academia, privacy and digital footprints.

In research, we build on the shoulders of giants, and Taher Elgamal is one the giants of cybersecurity. His work on Netscape led to the creation of SSL, and for which much of our Web security is still built on. His paper on "A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms" is true classic, and has been referenced over 11,600 times. Within the paper, Tahir outlined an...

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE talks with by Dan Shumow, Senior Software Development Engineer in the Security and Cryptography group, about cryptography, RSA and the researcher's mindset.

Len is a co-creator of the RSA encryption algorithm [1] and received the 2002 Turing Award (often defined as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science). The RSA paper is one of the most significant computer science papers ever published and has received over 25,695 citations. Len is also known for the creation of DNA computing. He is a professor at the University of Southern California and a member of t...

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE talks with Professor Martin Hellman, a world-renowned cryptologist and a founder of public key encryption, about cryptography and ethics.  

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE talks with Professor Leonard Adleman, from the University of Southern California, about the endurance of RSA, DNA as a computational substrate and the contention between national security and privacy.

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE talks with Professor Alan Woodward from University of Surrey about his illustrious career as a Physicist, Consultant, Researcher and Professor.  

In this episode Professor William Buchanan OBE is joined by Nick Sullivan, head of research at Cloudflare, to discuss the mathematics of cryptography, public key encryption, and the implications of quantum computing.

In this Episode Professor William Buchanan OBE talks with Federico Charosky about the past, present and future of the information security industry, what it takes to innovate as an entrepreneur and his view on the intersection between industry and academia.