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- Mar 26, 20261h 16m
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/ ...
- Mar 10, 20268 min
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)
- Feb 2, 20261h 12m
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 backen...
- Dec 31, 202556 min
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://securit...
- Oct 31, 202556 min
Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement
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=9FJwOI2PliU Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/10/31/apple-mie Links: - https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/ - Secure Page Table Monitor and Trusted Execution Monitor: https://support.apple.com/guide/securi...
- Aug 23, 20251h 11m
Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff
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=IoL3LfIozJo Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/stop-using-encrypted-email-with-william-woodruff ...
- Aug 16, 20251h 25m
Alex Gaynor
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=gBoGvyvsSi4 Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/16/alex-gaynor Links: - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw - https://alexgaynor.net/2025/jan/13/challenges-...
- Jul 29, 20251h 0m
Vegas, Baby!
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 them a bit, plus some other stuff SCWPodCon 2025: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/events/black...
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