Episode 64: Cryptography

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Intro Topic: Interning

News/Links

• CIA Wiretapping
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/03/07/cia-wikileaks-samsung-smart-tv-hack-security/#1dd6ec514bcd 
• SHA1 Collision
• https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html

Book of the Show

• Jason: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
• http://amzn.to/2np55TR
• Patrick: Make Magazine
• http://amzn.to/2noOkbC

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Tesseract
• https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
• Patrick: Pandemic App
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pandemic-the-board-game/id700793523?mt=8
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.f2zentertainment.pandemic&hl=en

Cryptography

• Keys
• Shared secret (a.k.a. password)
• One time pad
• Public & private key
• RSA
• PGP
• Signing
• Ciphers
• Stateless
• Caesar cipher
• Substitution cipher
• Stateful
• Block wise (example: AES)
• Streaming (example: Salsa20)
• Nonce (Initial state)
• Sending data securely
• Use libsodium
• Do ***not*** write your own crypto
• Quantum
• Compromised Clients