A Tower of Cryptographic Abstractions

Topics in this episode:

• The recent breakage of SIDH

  • https://ellipticnews.wordpress.com/2022/07/31/breaking-supersingular-isogeny-diffie-hellman-sidh/

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975

• A taxonomy of different cryptographic constructions

• What constructions are better suited for standards? What about software?

• Why is it hard to provide protocols as a library?

• Why threat modelling and security properties will always be important

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