Martin Hellman is an American cryptographer known for co-inventing public-key cryptography with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle in the 1970s. Their groundbreaking Diffie-Hellman key exchange method allowed secure communication over insecure channels, laying the foundation for modern encryption protocols. Hellman has also contributed to cybersecurity policy ... Show More
Mar 19
Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long
Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create friction and endless debate, or quietly remove entire classes of problems from a team’ ... Show More
50m 35s
Mar 12
DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector databases, chunking strategies, embedding models, and indexing in ... Show More
37m 57s
Aug 2024
Quantum-proof and ready: NIST unveils the future of encryption. [Special Edition]
In this Special Edition podcast, N2K's Executive Editor Brandon Karpf speaks with Dustin Moody, mathematician at NIST, about their first 3 recently finalized post-quantum encryption standards.
NIST finalized a key set of encryption algorithms designed to protect against future c ... Show More
28m 3s
Aug 2025
#463: Andrew Cheung, CEO of 01 Quantum Inc, on Building a Quantum-Safe Cryptocurrency and Quantum’s Threat to Crypto
<p>Andrew Cheung boasts over 25 years of invaluable experience as a Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of 01 Quantum Inc. Throughout his illustrious career, he has consistently spearheaded cutting-edge innovations, and driven product development, resulting in a ... Show More
34m 35s
May 2021
2 - Quantum Computing Has A Purpose! (The Factoring Algorithm)
In the mid-90’s, there was no quantum computing field. There was excitement, sure, but nearly a decade and a half after the conference at MIT Endicott House, the possibilities of marrying physics and computer science had yet to yield a significant technological breakthrough. That ... Show More
38m 59s
Dec 2024
Future-proofing finance: FS-ISAC’s blueprint for cryptographic agility. [Special Edition]
Brandon Karpf sits down with Mike Silverman, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at FS-ISAC, to discuss the white paper Building Cryptographic Agility in the Financial Sector.
Authored by experts from FS-ISAC’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Working Group, the paper addresses the vu ... Show More
20m 6s
Nov 2019
Cybersecurity and IoT: New Risks and How To Minimize Them
This week, Ann chats with Dr. Andrea Little Limbago, a cybersecurity researcher, writer, keynote speaker, quant analyst, national security wonk, and computational social scientist at Virtru. Ann and Andrea pull the threads on how IoT can empower businesses to enrich and leverage ... Show More
26m 43s
Oct 2025
LIVE from RareEvo: TradFi vs DeFi Stablecoins (Lessons from Hacks, Policy, and Global Adoption)
Gerrit, developer relations at Curve Finance, discusses the unique risks and rewards associated with DeFi stablecoins, and how increased regulatory clarity has fueled the rise of TradFi stablecoins. He also spotlights the crucial role of platforms like Curve in providing essentia ... Show More
19m 14s