Security Cryptography Whatever

Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian

Booking Overview

This is a technically deep interview-led security and cryptography show, alternating external conversations with solo commentary on major developments in the field. Agencies could credibly pitch established cryptographers, post-quantum specialists, vulnerability researchers, and security engineers with influential research, tools, or books; booking is likely high difficulty because guests must meet a rigorous expert-level technical standard.

Metrics

Episodes: 67

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 50.9k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Deirdre Connolly - Security and cryptography professional focused on applied security and cryptographic systems.

Thomas Ptacek - Security researcher and co-founder of Matasano Security, known for work in applied cryptography and software security.

David Adrian - Security researcher specializing in cryptography, internet security, and cryptographic standards.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Deep technical expertise in cryptography, vulnerability research, software security, or related fields, typically demonstrated through influential research, open-source security tools, standards work, or respected technical books.

Required Achievements:

Influential security or cryptography research, Creation of widely used open-source security tools, Contributions to cryptographic standards, Authorship of respected technical books

Recent Guest Discussions

Mark Schultz-Wu - The History And Foundations Of Lattice Cryptography, Learning With Errors, And Post-quantum Cryptographic Systems.

Micha Zalewski - The Future Of Vulnerability Discovery, Fuzzing, And Whether Automated Techniques Remain Necessary As Software Security Tools Evolve.

Recent Topics

Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Post Quantum, Vulnerability Research, Software Security

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Security Cryptography Whatever

AI Lattice Proofs with Chris Peikert

August 26, 2026

The robots are at it again, and this time they’re solving, and breaking(?), math and cryptography! Things have been happening in the lattice corner including new leapfrogging complexity results in the closest vector problem (CVP), AND a possible poly-time quantum attack against the dihedral coset problem (DCP) that made everyone freak out for about a week (UPDATE: looks like it’s busted: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693). ALSO, there was an important distinguisher attack against Classic McEl...

An Odyssey of Lattice Cryptography with Mark Schultz-Wu

July 27, 2026

We invited Mark Schultz-Wu on the podcast to talk about the history of lattice cryptography. When lattices are explained in plain english, they are actually quite simple! I don't think any of us have ever seen Deirdre so happy. If you're watching the video version, there's a section that's 6.1 minutes long with no cuts and consists just of Deirdre vigorously agreeing with what Mark is saying while smiling. What a time to be alive.Anyway, we are hosting another happy hour i...

Trump's Golden Post-Quantum EO(s)

July 02, 2026

The dear leader has actually bleated out some not-dumb executive orders (EOs) to accelerate adoption of post-quantum crypto for the US government! This looks to be in response to a flurry of advancements in quantum computing and quantum attack algorithms a few months ago. We cram legalize into our eyeballs— plus, ECDSA.fail!Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwQpN_F6P8Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/07/02/trumps-golden-post-quantum-eosLinks:- The EO h...

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