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Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff

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October 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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Calum @zootm.bsky.social · Aug 23

I have just today discovered that podcasts can be chapterised, and that apparently @scwpod.bsky.social is painstakingly broken into chapters with often-joke names

Chapter view of a podcast app showing chapters named “pgp for encrypted email”, “fcking metadata”, “m-m-m-metadata”, “SMTP m-m-m-metadata”, and “dkim, spam”

August 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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Calum

@zootm.bsky.social

I have just today discovered that podcasts can be chapterised, and that apparently @scwpod.bsky.social is painstakingly broken into chapters with often-joke names

August 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM

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David Adrian

@dadrian.io

Come for the PGP dunks, stay for the broader discussion of why encrypted email doesn’t make sense

Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social · Aug 23

NEW EPISODE!

An OpenPGP.js bug gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. William Woodruff joined us to explain the vuln & indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted:

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3...

Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff

August 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM

Security Cryptography Whatever

@scwpod.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE!

An OpenPGP.js bug gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. William Woodruff joined us to explain the vuln & indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted:

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3...

August 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler

@simon.overgrown.garden

The first part of this interview with my ex-colleague Alex is a great listen if you're a software engineer (or otherwise technical) and are interested in what we were working on as technologists at the Federal Trade Commission.

Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social · Aug 16

NEW EPISODE!

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!

youtu.be/gBoGvyvsSi4

Alex Gaynor

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August 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Security Cryptography Whatever

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NEW EPISODE!

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!

youtu.be/gBoGvyvsSi4

Alex Gaynor

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. ...

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August 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM

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First round of invites going out tonight!

July 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Vegas, Baby!

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosting a party during BlackHat USA, brought to you by Teleport! Get tickets now!

July 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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Come to SCWPodCon, sponsored by Teleport! securitycryptographywhatever.com/events/black...

SCWPodCon BlackHat 2025

July 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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Security Cryptography Whatever

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New episode! Come to SCWPodCon, sponsored by Teleport! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnh...

Vegas, Baby!

July 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM

Security Cryptography Whatever

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New episode! Come to SCWPodCon, sponsored by Teleport! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnh...

Vegas, Baby!

This Quantum Attack Is Live Now

July 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ²

@durumcrustulum.com

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July 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM

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Signups are still open! Sponsored by Teleport!

Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social · Jul 10

We're throwing another SCWPodCon in Vegas! It's in the liminal space between BlackHat and DEF CON. Be there, or have FOMO.

We'll provide the drinks, you provide the conversation. Sign up here: securitycryptographywhatever.com/events/black...

SCWPodCon BlackHat 2025

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosting a party during BlackHat USA. Get tickets now!

July 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM

Security Cryptography Whatever

@scwpod.bsky.social

We're throwing another SCWPodCon in Vegas! It's in the liminal space between BlackHat and DEF CON. Be there, or have FOMO.

We'll provide the drinks, you provide the conversation. Sign up here: securitycryptographywhatever.com/events/black...

SCWPodCon BlackHat 2025

Sandboxes? In my process? It's more likely than you think.

July 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Should we throw another BlackHat party?

July 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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David Adrian

@dadrian.io

Wrote some words about memory safety and JITs. Basically, there are things we want out of hardware, but it's not MTE and it still involves migrating to memory safe languages

dadrian.io/blog/posts/m...

Discussions around memory safety often focus on choice of language, and how the language can provide memory safety guarantees. Unfortunately, choosing a language is a decision made at the start of a p...

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July 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Still have one more slot for a sponsor for our annual Vegas event, poke @dadrian.io if you have money.

June 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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NEW EPISODE!

It seems like everyone that deploys E2EE encrypted cloud storage seems to mess it up, often in new and creative ways. Our special guests Matilda Backendal, Jonas Hofmann, & Kien Tuong Trong give us a tour & discuss how to actually build one securely:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sizL...

E2EE Storage Done Right with Matilda Backendal Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Trong

May 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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Thomas Ptacek

@sockpuppet.org

This one was super fun. We talked with Jonas Hofmann, Kien Tuong Trong, and Matilda Backendal about a cross-section study of "E2EE" secure storage (not messaging, storage). Backendal is working to formalize that problem (it wasn't already!) Fun bugs!

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/05/19/e...

It seems like everyone that tries to deploy end-to-end encrypted cloud storage seems to mess it up, often in new and creative ways. Our special guests Matild...

Picking Quantum Resistant Algorithms

May 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Our guest Nicholas Carlini and his coauthors just won Best Paper at Eurocrypt 2025:

eprint.iacr.org/2024/1580.pdf

May 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Migrating the US government to quantum-resistant cryptography is hard, luckily the gamer presidents are on it.

This episode is very not safe for work, nor does it reflect the political opinions of, well, anybody.

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securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/03/23/p...

Migrating the US government to quantum-resistant cryptography is hard, luckily the gamer presidents are on it. This episode is extremely not safe for work, n...