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Facing the Vulnpocalypse with lcamtuf
Jun 15, 2026
1h 11m 29s
AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini
Mar 26, 2026
1h 16m 00s
Standardizing Pure PQC
Mar 10, 2026
8m 14s
Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor
Feb 2, 2026
1h 12m 38s
The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard
Dec 31, 2025
56m 49s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/15/26 | 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.wik... | 1h 11m 29s | ||||||
| 3/26/26 | AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini✨ | vulnerability researchAI+3 | Nicholas Carlini | ClaudeYouTube+3 | — | vulnerabilityAI+5 | — | 1h 16m 00s | |
| 3/10/26 | Standardizing Pure PQC✨ | cryptographystandardization+3 | — | — | — | cryptographystandardization+3 | — | 8m 14s | |
| 2/2/26 | Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor✨ | Pythoncryptography+3 | Paul KehrerAlex Gaynor | OpenSSLpyca/cryptography | — | Pythoncryptography+3 | — | 1h 12m 38s | |
| 12/31/25 | The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard✨ | cryptographysecure voting+3 | Matt Bernhard | HeliosInternational Association of Cryptologic Research | — | IACRdecrypt+5 | — | 56m 49s | |
| 10/31/25 | Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement✨ | memory securityApple+3 | — | AppleYouTube+3 | — | Applememory integrity+3 | — | 56m 45s | |
| 8/23/25 | Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff✨ | encrypted emailOpenPGP+3 | William Woodruff | OpenPGPYouTube+1 | — | encrypted emailPGP+3 | — | 1h 11m 07s | |
| 8/16/25 | Alex Gaynor✨ | WebAuthnSecurity+3 | Alex Gaynor | FTCGitHub+1 | — | WebAuthnSecurity Person+3 | — | 1h 25m 21s | |
| 7/29/25 | Vegas, Baby!✨ | partycrypto talks+3 | — | Fly.io | — | SCWPodConTeleport+6 | Teleport | 1h 00m 56s | |
| 5/19/25 | E2EE Storage Done Right with Matilda Backendal Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Truong✨ | end-to-end encryptioncloud storage+3 | Matilda BackendalJonas Hofmann+1 | — | — | E2EEcloud storage+3 | — | 1h 02m 25s | |
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| 3/24/25 | Picking Quantum Resistant Algorithms✨ | quantum-resistant cryptographyUS government+3 | — | US government | — | quantum cryptographysecurity+3 | — | 14m 56s | |
| 2/25/25 | Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK with Matt Green and Joe Hall | Apple has pulled the availability of their opt-in iCloud end-to-end encryption feature, called Advanced Data Protection, in the UK. This doesn't only affect UK Apple users, however. To help us make sense of this surprising move from the fruit company, we got Matt Green, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins, and Joe Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society, on the horn. Recorded Saturday February 22nd, 2025. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025... | 48m 30s | ||||||
| 1/28/25 | Cryptanalyzing LLMs with Nicholas Carlini | 'Let us model our large language model as a hash function—' Sold. Our special guest Nicholas Carlini joins us to discuss differential cryptanalysis on LLMs and other attacks, just as the ones that made OpenAI turn off some features, hehehehe. Watch episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vZ64xPI2Rc0 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/01/28/cryptanalyzing-llms-with-nicholas-carlini/ Links: - https://nicholas.carlini.com - “Stealing Part of a Production Language ... | 1h 20m 42s | ||||||
| 1/21/25 | Biden’s Cyber-Everything Bagel with Carole House | Just a few days before turning off the lights, the Biden administration dropped a huge cybersecurity executive order including a lot of good stuff, that hopefully [cross your fingers, knock wood, spin around three times and spit] will last into future administrations. We snagged some time with Carole House, outgoing Special Advisor and Acting Senior Director for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Policy, National Security Council in the Biden-Harris White House, to give us a brain dump... | 57m 14s | ||||||
| 12/18/24 | Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques | THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING...right? We got Samuel Jacques and John Schanck at short notice to answer that question plus a bunch of other about error correcting codes, logical qubits, T-gates, and more about Google's new quantum computer Willow. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/18/quantum-willow Links: - https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ - https://research.google/blog/making-quantum-error-correction-work/ - https://bl... | 53m 36s | ||||||
| 12/7/24 | Dual_EC_DRBG with Justin Schuh and Matthew Green | Nothing we have ever recorded on SCW has brought so much joy to David. However, at several points during the episode, we may have witnessed Matthew Green's soul leave his body. Our esteemed guests Justin Schuh and Matt Green joined us to debate whether `Dual_EC_DRBG` was intentionally backdoored by the NSA or 'just' a major fuckup. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/07/dual-ec-drbg Links: - Dicky George at InfiltrateCon 2014, 'Life at Both Ends of the Barrel - An... | 1h 07m 45s | ||||||
| 10/15/24 | A Little Bit of Rust Goes a Long Way with Android's Jeff Vander Stoep | You may not be rewriting the world in Rust, but if you follow the findings of the Android team and our guest Jeff Vander Stoep, you'll drive down your memory-unsafety vulnerabilities more than 2X below the industry average over time! 🎉 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/10/15/a-little-bit-of-rust-goes-a-long-way/ Links: - https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html - “Safe Coding”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36516... | 1h 13m 55s | ||||||
| 10/13/24 | Campaign Security with [REDACTED] | With the 2024 United States Presidential Election right around the corner, we talk to an unnamed guest who has worked on cybersecurity for political campaigns in the United States since 2004. We recorded this in late August, 2024. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/10/13/campaign-security/ Links: - Active Measures by Thomas Rind: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374287269/activemeasures - Aurora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Aurora - Google APP announce... | 1h 23m 39s | ||||||
| 9/7/24 | Telegram with Matthew Green | We finally have an excuse to tear down Telegram! Their CEO got arrested by the French, apparently not because the cryptography in Telegram is bad, but special guest Matt Green joined us to talk about how the cryptography is bad anyway, and you probably shouldn't use Telegram as a secure messenger of any kind! Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/09/06/telegram Links: - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-ap... | 1h 04m 04s | ||||||
| 7/25/24 | Summertime Sadness | Are you going to be in Vegas during BlackHat / DEF CON? We're hosting a mixer, sponsored by Observa! We have limited capacity, so please only register if you can actually come. Location details are in the confirmation email. Tickets will be released in batches, so if you get waitlisted, there's a good chance you still get in. Looking forward to seeing you in Vegas! Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scwpod-vegas-2024-tickets-946939099337 We talk about CrowdStrike in this episode, but... | 57m 26s | ||||||
| 6/24/24 | Zero Day Markets with Mark Dowd | We have Mark Dowd on, founder of Aziumuth Security and one of the authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment, to talk about the market for zero day vulnerabilities, and how mitigations affect monetizing offensive security work. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/06/24/mdowd/ Links: https://www.azimuthsecurity.com/https://www.vigilantlabs.com/https://github.com/mdowd79/presentations/blob/main/bluehat2023-mdowd-final.pdfhttps://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Han... | 1h 25m 49s | ||||||
| 5/24/24 | ekr | iykyk Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/05/25/ekr/ Links: - https://hovav.net/ucsd/dist/draft-shacham-tls-fasttrack-00.txt - https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/fasttrack.pdf - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446 - SoK: SCT Auditing in Certificate Transparency: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.01661 - A hard look at Certificate Transparency, Part I: Transparency Systems: https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/transparency-part-1/ - A hard look at Certifica... | 1h 48m 16s | ||||||
| 4/30/24 | STIR/SHAKEN with Paul Grubbs and Josh Brown | Josh Brown and Paul Grubbs join us to describe how those damned spam calls work, and how STIR/SHAKEN is supposed to try to stop them, but have other privacy and security implications as well. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/04/30/stir-shaken/ Links: - https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2024/rwc/rwc2024/98/slides.pdf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trxXF0-fRU - Paul Grubbs: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~paulgrub/ "Security Cryptography Whatever" is h... | 1h 01m 47s | ||||||
| 3/23/24 | Cryptography Tier List | (NSFW) Three AI-generated guests rank cryptography things into a tier list. Play along at home and make your own tier list: https://tiermaker.com/create/cryptography-15683166 This episode is definitely not safe for work and definitely a parody. Do not base your decision in the 2024 election off of this podcast episode. No campaigns have endorsed this podcast. "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian) | 19m 28s | ||||||
| 3/3/24 | Post-Quantum iMessage with Douglas Stebila | Apple iMessage is getting a big upgrade! Not only are they rolling out ratcheting, but they’re going post-quantum, AND they’re doing post-quantum ratcheting! Douglas Stebila joined us to talk about his security analysis of the new PQ3 protocol update and not indulge our wild Apple speculations: Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/03/03/post-quantum-imessage-with-douglas-stebila/ Links: - https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/ - Security analysis of the iMessage ... | 55m 34s | ||||||
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