Crypto Wars
How Hacks Happen
English - July 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB - ★ - 1 ratingTechnology hack hacking hacks cybersecurity cryptography security cyber security infosec Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Say No to the NSA! Until the mid-1970s, the National Security Agency held an iron grip on all research into computer-based cryptography in the USA. In this episode, we talk about how the NSA squashed all public research into cryptography in the 1950s and 1960s, but loosened its grip to work to develop the Digital Encryption Standard (DES) with IBM. Then, in the 1970s, mathematicians Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and others went head-to-head with the NSA to make cryptography available to us all. Their research, and their courage, forever changed the face of modern cybersecurity.
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