New Cryptography

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 20, 2018, 11 p.m. (60 minutes).

Cryptography is usually associated with encrypting and signing messages, but since the 1990s, the field developed new tools that bring completely new capabilities: from PAKE protocols that make bruteforcing passwords impossible, to zero-knowledge proofs enabling blind credentials. This talk will take a look at all those things modern cryptography can do beyond the old encryption and signatures.

Presenters:

• George Tankersley
  **George Tankersley** (@gtank__) is a cryptography engineer who currently spends his days turning math into magic Internet money. In the realm of cryptography, he^Ys previously worked on Certificate Transparency, TLS, and Tor-related projects, as well as contributing cryptographic design to a variety of other open source security and infrastructure systems.
• Filippo Valsorda
  **Filippo Valsorda** (@FiloSottile) is a cryptography engineer, building and breaking systems in Go. He works at Google on the Go Open-Source Project, where he owns the Go cryptography standard libraries. Previously at Cloudflare, he developed its experimental TLS 1.3 stack and kicked DNSSEC until it became something deployable. Nevertheless, he’s probably best known for making popular online vulnerability tests, including the original Heartbleed test.

Links:

• https://xii.hope.net/schedule.html#-new-cryptography-
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) New Cryptography.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) New Cryptography.eng.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgI6jLulZPs

Similar Presentations:

• Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017) / Cryptography beyond Encryption and Signatures
• Black Hat USA 1998 / Mistakes and Blunders: A Hacker Looks at Cryptography.
• Black Hat USA 1999 / Mistakes and blunders: A hacker looks at cryptography