ASecuritySite Podcast
Episodes
World-leaders in Cryptography: Joos Vandewalle
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joos is an Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is one of the most impa...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Jens Groth
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jens is a Chief Scientist at Nexus, and works in many areas of cryptography including in pairing-based cryptography and Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKPs)....
World-leaders in Cryptography: Daniele Micciancio
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniele is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego and, in 2019, he was elected as ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Gene Tsudik
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gene is a Distinguished and ICS Alumni Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he has been since 2000. Hi...
World-leaders in Technology: Vint Cerf
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vint is seen as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, and along with Robert Kahn, was award the ACM AM Turing Prize - the Nobel Prize of Comput...
Panel Discussion: The Quantum clock countdown to Y2Q
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Panel Discussion: The Quantum clock countdown to Y2Q Peter Ferry, CEO Scottish Centre of Excellence in Digital Trust and DLT Amit Gupta, Founder...
Post Quantum Cryptography and Other Crypto with Daniel J Bernstein
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A chat in the International Conference on PQC and AI. Daniel is a world-renowned computer scientist, one of the most influential figures in modern cry...
Cryptography Experts: Professor Martin Albrecht
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Albrecht is a Professor of Cryptography at King's College London and a Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ. He works broadly across the f...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Gilles Brassard
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gilles has been a full Professor at the Université de Montréal for more than 45 years. He laid the foundations of quantum cryptography at a time whe...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Christof Paar
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christof is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany. He is also, a member of the German National Academy of...
Blockchain in Scotland
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World-leaders in Cryptography: Victor S Miller
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Victor is a Senior Research Scientist at Nexus Laboratories. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1975, and was an assistant ...
Fireside Chat: Bruce Schneier
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A fireside chat from the International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future. Bruce has created a wide range of cryptographic methods includi...
International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Federico Charosky
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Federico Charosky, CEO Quroum CyberFederico is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with over 25 years of distinguished experience across the Americas, ...
International Conference in Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Colin Cook
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Blockchain/DLT in Financial Services
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Stephen Ingledew OBE, Chair, Fintech Scotland Nishant Govil: MD, Innovation Adoption, BlackRock Kara Kennedy: Head of Digital Assets, JP Morga...
International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Blockchain/DLT in Business and Society
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Date: 24 June 2025 Chair: Peter Ferry, CEO, TRUST Centre of Excellence. Martin Doherty Hughes: Former MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Ralph C Merkle
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph is a co-inventor of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, created Merkle's Puzzles, the co-inventor of the Merkle–He...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Rosario Gennaro
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rosario Gennaro is a Professor of Computer Science at City University of New York (CUNY) and a Director for the Center for Algorithms and Interactive ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Tal Rabin
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tal is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a Manager at AWS. Previously, she was the head of resear...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Vinod Vaikuntanathan
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vinod is a professor of computer science at MIT and a principal investigator in the IT Computer Science and AI Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Srini Devadas
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Srini Devadas an Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intellige...
World-leaders in Cybersecurity: Don Smith
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don Smith leads the CTU Threat Research group at Secureworks. His career starting with the creation of dns in 2005, and which was acquired by SecureW...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Jonathan Katz
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He is now a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, w...
Innovators in Cryptography and Blockchain: Maciej Zurawski
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maciej Zurawski is technology entrepreneur and blockchain specialist with over 25 years of experience in commercial software development, R&D and bu...
Innovators in Cryptography and Blockchain: Greg McLardie
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greg McLardie has 30 years of executive experience in the USA, Australia, Japan, China and now the UK with the likes of Procter & Gamble and EY. He c...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Moti Yung
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Moti is a Security and Privacy Research Scientist with Google and an Adjunct Research Faculty member at the Computer Science Dep of Columbia Universi...
Innovators in Cryptography and Blockchain: Jamie Gilchrist
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie is the CTO at Umazi, the Head of Research at DataFair.ai and co-founder and CEO of Tunestamp.
World-leaders in Cryptography: Aggelos Kiayias
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aggelos Kiayias is a professor at the University of Edinburgh and the chief science officer at Input Output Global (formerly IOHK). He received his Ph...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Anna Lysyanskaya
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anna is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Her research spans many areas of advanced cryptography including with digital signatures,...
Apple Steps Back Their Security
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fallback for law enforcement agencies has always been the place where files are stored, and all the best encryption within end-to-end communicatio...
Samsung S25 Goes PQC
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://youtu.be/hcdk3u2R5Mo Yesterday, I gave two short presentations on PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography), and next week, I'm in London to gi...
Leaders in Digital Trust/Blockchain: Aysegul Sensoy
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aysegul Sensoy has over 20 years of management experience with blockchain, emerging technologies, fintech, business development, marketing and sales...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Amit Sahai
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amit is a professor of computer science at UCLA and is the director of the Center for Encrypted Functionalities. Amit has been cited in his research w...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Bart Preneel
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bart is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at KU Leuven in Belgium. He co-invented the Miyaguchi (Meya-Goochy)–Preneel scheme and ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Ivan Damgard
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ivan Damgard is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is the co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgard const...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Chris Peikert
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the MIT Compute...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Clifford Cocks
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clifford Cocks is a British mathematician and cryptographer. While working at GCHQ, he invented public key encryption, and which predates the work...
Bill Buchanan Chats With Debbie Reynolds (The Data Diva)
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Buchanan Chats With Debbie Reynolds (The Data Diva). Debbie's podcast is here: https://www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast
World-leaders in Cryptography: Vadim Lyubashevsky
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vadim Lyubashevsky is a cryptographer at IBM Research Europe in Zurich. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2008. His ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Matthew Green
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew is a cryptographer and academic at Johns Hopkins University and has designed and analyzed cryptographic systems used in wireless networks, ...
World Leaders in Cryptography: Alfred Menezes
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alfred Menezes is a Professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. In 2001, he won the Hall Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its A...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Bruce Schneier (Nov 2024)
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This seminar series runs for students on the Network Security and Cryptography module, but invites guests to participate. Bruce has created a wide ran...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Brent Waters
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 UC...
Get Used to Three Boring Acronyms: ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 importan...
So What Is A PreHash, And What Has it to do With Post Quantum Signatures?
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
CMAC or HMAC?
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 wea...
The Brainpool Curves
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Article: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-brainpool-curves-f2f865b88191
Our Current Hardware Architectures Are Often Not Fit For a World of ML and Homomorphic Encryption
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Article: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/our-current-hardware-architectures-are-often-not-fit-for-a-world-of-ml-and-homomorphic-en...
NIST Looks To The Future of Cryptography: SHA-1, 3DES and SHA-224 on Naughty Step
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Article: https://billatnapier.medium.com/nist-looks-to-the-future-of-cryptography-sha-1-3des-and-sha-224-on-naughty-step-7295d03fdc54
Goodbye, Google, and is the Microsoft and OpenAI Partnership Fraying?
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read more: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/goodbye-google-and-the-microsoft-and-openai-partnership-fraying-8c35e35cd814
The Wonderful World of Proxies
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read more: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-wonderful-world-of-proxies-818c196290ff
The Largest Prime Number Ever Found and the 52nd Mersenne Prime …
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Details: https://billatnapier.medium.com/the-largest-prime-number-ever-found-and-the-52nd-mersenne-prime-65348546b651
World-leaders in Cryptography: Phillip Rogaway
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 awa...
Humans v AI in Cybersecurity
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 (Larg...
After 48 Years, It's A Long Goodbye to the Diffie-Hellman Method
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 out...
Towards the Memex: All Hail The Future Rulers of our World
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Yuriy Polyakov
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDn0Tkhi8zw Yuriy Polyakov is the Vice President of Cryptography and a Principal Scientist at Dua...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Kurt Rohloff
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Y_kya4lR8 Kurt Rohloff is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Thomas Prest
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Prest is a cryptography researcher at PQShield and previously worked with Thales. He completed his PhD at the École Normale Supérieure and fo...
JavaScript is a Trademark?
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/javascript-is-a-trademark-f4d5a7d32386
Talking with... Bill Buchanan OBE, Professor of Cryptography
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 leadi...
Leaders in Cybersecurity: Amit Gupta
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Leslie Lamport
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 tr...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Daniel J Bernstein
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pr...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Jan Camenisch
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jan is the CTO and a Cryptographer at DFINITY, and, since 1998, he has consistently produced research outputs of rigour, novelty and sheer brilliance ...
An Interview with Ted Miracco
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 cybe...
World-leaders in Cybersecurity: Troy Hunt
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 signi...
The Greatest Step Change in Cybersecurity Ever! Welcome to the New and Scary World of Generative AI and Cybersecurity
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is Day 0 of a new world of cybersecurity. Everything changes from here. There will be a time before Generative AI (GenAI) in cybersecurity and a ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Marty Hellman (March 2024)
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This seminar series runs for students on the Applied Cryptography and Trust module, but invites guests from students from across the university. Marti...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Vincent Rijmen (March 2024)
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Rijmen is one of the co-creators of the NIST-defined AES standard (also known as Rijndael). He also co-designed the WHIRLPOOL hashing method, ...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Whitfield Diffie
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whitfield Diffie is one of the greatest Computer Scientists ever. He - along with Marty Hellman - was one of the first to propose the usage of public ...
Thank You, IBM … Here's To Another 100 Years
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I do what I do because of one company … IBM. Why? Because in the 1970s, I got into computers, with a ZX81 (1KB of RAM) and a Dragon 32 (32 KB of RAM...
The Builder of Our Future: Torben P Pedersen
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I have been lucky enough to speak to some of the most amazing people who have built the core of security on the Internet, and a person near the top of...
Inspired Edinburgh: An Interview with Professor Bill Buchanan OBE
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_kMmbvu9VM
Just Crypto Magic, Be A Teacher, And The King and Queen of Cybersecurity
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There short podcast on Just Magic, Be A Teacher, And The King and Queen of Cybersecurity Magic: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/...
World-leaders in Cryptography: Bruce Schneier (Feb 2024)
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This seminar series runs for students in the Applied Cryptography and Trust module but invites guests from students from across the university. This s...
A Full Diary of a Cyber Crime .. From Phishing to Profit - Part 1
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm going to show a full timeline of a Cyber Crime to show the steps that a scammer will take in order to gain funds from their target. Overall, I'm i...
A Full Diary of a Cyber Crime .. From Phishing to Profit - Part 2
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm going to show a full timeline of a Cyber Crime to show the steps that a scammer will take in order to gain funds from their target. Overall I'm in...
Professor Peter Andras: Thoughts on AI, Research and Education
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Peter Andras is the Dean of the School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment. Previously, Peter was the Head of the School of C...
Bill Buchanan - Which People Have Secured Our Digital World More Than Any Other?
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And, so, if you could pick one or two people who have contributed most to our online security, who would it be? Ron Rivest? Shafi Goldwasser? Ralph Me...
Bill Buchanan - Test-of-Time (ToT) for Research Papers: Some Papers Rocket, Some Papers Crash, and But Most Never Go Anywhere
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In research, the publishing of high-quality papers is often critical for the development of a research career: "I am an academic. It's publish or peri...
Bill Buchanan - PQC Gets A Tombstone Notice
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And, so, we are moving into one of the greatest changes that we ever see on the Internet, and where we will translate from our existing public key inf...
Bill Buchanan - Be More BBN Than IBM
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please excuse me for using IBM in the title — I have the greatest of respect for a company that has continued to lead and innovate over the past six...
Bill Buchanan - A Bluffer's Guide To Encryption In The Cloud: Top 100
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In cybersecurity, the teaching of Cloud security is often weak. So, here are my Top 100 things about encryption in the Cloud. I've focused on AWS, but...
Bill Buchanan - Top 101 Tips for a PhD student and ECR
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well, here are a few tips for PhD students and ECR (Early Career Researchers): Enjoy doing research. It is fun and one of the few times in your caree...
Bill Buchanan - 100 Interesting Things to Learn About Cryptography
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here are my 100 interesting things to learn about cryptography: For a 128-bit encryption key, there are 340 billion billion billion billion possible ...
Talking with Tech Leaders: A Chat with Michael Phair (Be-IT)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-with-tech-leaders/id1533642699 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11PmWm0mlGQNAhVn...
Bill Buchanan - A Vision for the NHS: A Citizen Wallet
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Your organisation needs a vision. Without it, you will never be great. You will never advance. You will keep doing the same old things and without any...
Bill Buchanan - Let's Talk About Spreadsheets
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I remember attending a talk many years ago, and the presenter said, "I've got this amazing tool called Lotus 123", and he gave a practical demo of doi...
Bill Buchanan - A Bluffer's Guide to Blockchain: 100 Knowledge Snippets
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So, here's my Top 100 snippets of knowledge for blockchain: Blockchains use public key methods to integrate digital trust. Bob signs for a transactio...
Bill Buchanan - Dead Man's PLC (DM-PLC)
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blog: here. You can just imagine the movie trailer … "Your worst enemy has taken over all your flights, and you cannot remove them from your networ...
Bill Buchanan - The 100 Basic Rules of Cryptography (and Secure Programming)
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kerckhoff's principle defines that "a Cryptographic system should be designed to be secure, even if all its details, except for the key, are publicly ...
Bill Buchanan - A Novice Mistake: Meet Milk Sad … And The 32-bit Key!!!!!!
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A team of developers at Distrust and others has discovered a weakness in the cryptographic methods of creating a random seed for the Libbitcoin Exp...
Bill Buchanan - In Cybersecurity, It's All About Threats, Vulnerabilities, Mitigations, Detection and Risks
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As humans we are driven by risks and threats, and where we are continually weighing-up costs and benefits. A threat is an actual thing that could actu...
Bill Buchanan - Meet New PQC Signature Contenders
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Digital signatures are the foundation of our digital trust. With this, Bob has a key pair: a private key and a public key. In order to provide his ide...
Bill Buchanan - When The Government Can't Even Protect and Encrypt Our Data … What Chance The Rest?
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons from the cybersecurity rule book for government: Lesson 1: If you have PII (Personally Identifiable Information), you should encrypt it. Less...
Bill Buchanan - One Of The Greatest Protocols — and One of The Greatest Weaknesses — of the Internet … Meet The Mighty BGP
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/one-of-the-greatest-protocols-and-one-of-the-greatest-weaknesses-of-the-internet-meet-the-d...
Bill Buchanan - My Five Favouriate/Least Favouriate Computer Programming Languages
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/my-five-favouriate-least-favouriate-computer-programming-languages-dd8a560c27a I love progr...
Bill Buchanan - The Wacky World of JavaScript and npm: Protecting The Software Supply Chain
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-wacky-world-of-javascript-and-npm-protecting-the-software-supply-chain-not-25662cfd1b66...