Best Professor Bill Buchanan Obe Podcasts (2024)

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Leaders in Cybersecurity: Amit Gupta 1:10:07

2M ago1:10:07

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Amit Gupta is the founder and CEO of Acubed.IT, which is a company which creates innovative and secure cross-security domain solutions for customers such as the UK government. One of their key innovations is the Cross Domain Hybrid Application (CDHA) framework, and which aims to break down the barriers in sharing trusted information across multiple…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Leslie Lamport 1:05:10

2M ago1:05:10

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Please excuse the poor quality of my microphone, as the wrong microphone was selected. In research, we are all just building on the shoulders of true giants, and there are few larger giants than Leslie Lamport — the creator of LaTeX. For me, every time I open up a LaTeX document, I think of the work he did on creating LaTeX, and which makes my rese…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Daniel J Bernstein 1:52:48

2M ago1:52:48

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Daniel J Bernstein (djb) was born in 1971. He is a USA/German citizen and a Personal Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and a Research Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At the tender age of 24 — in 1995 — he, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — brought a case against the US Government related to the protec…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Jan Camenisch 1:06:02

2M ago1:06:02

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Jan is the CTO and a Cryptographer at DFINITY, and, since 1998, he has consistently produced research outputs of rigour, novelty and sheer brilliance [here]. He was recently awarded the Levchin Prize at Real World Crypto 2024 - along with Anna Lysyanskaya. Jan’s research core happened when he was hosted in the IBM Zurich Research Lab, but has since…

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An Interview with Ted Miracco 1:12:37

3M ago1:12:37

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Ted Miracco is the CEO of Approov and which is Scottish/US company that is headquartered in Edinburgh. Miracco has over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, defence electronics, RF/microwave circuit design, semiconductors and electronic design automation (EDA). He co-founded and served as CEO of Cylynt, which focuses on intellectual property an…

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World-leaders in Cybersecurity: Troy Hunt 55:53

3M ago55:53

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Troy is a world-leading cybersecurity professional. He created and runs the Have I Been Pwned? Web site, and which contains details of the most significant data breaches on the Internet. Along with this, he has developed other security tools, such as ASafaWeb, which automated the security analysis of ASP.NET Web sites. Troy is based in Australia an…

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The Greatest Step Change in Cybersecurity Ever! Welcome to the New and Scary World of Generative AI and Cybersecurity 14:18

4M ago14:18

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This is Day 0 of a new world of cybersecurity. Everything changes from here. There will be a time before Generative AI (GenAI) in cybersecurity and a time after it. Over the last two years, GenAI has come on leaps and bounds, and where it once suffered from hallucinations, took racist and bigoted approaches, and often was over-assertive, within Cha…

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Towards the Memex: All Hail The Future Rulers of our World 7:50

4M ago7:50

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And, so George Orwell projected a world where every single part of our lives was monitored and controlled by Big Brother. Arthur C Clark outlined the day when machines focused solely on a goal — even if it was to the detriment of human lives. And, Isaac Asimov outlined a world where machines would have to be programmed with rules so that they could…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Marty Hellman (March 2024) 1:06:08

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This seminar series runs for students on the Applied Cryptography and Trust module, but invites guests from students from across the university. Martin is one of the co-creators of public key encryption, and worked alongside Whitfield Diffie in the creation of the widely used Diffie-Hellman method. In 2015, he was presented with the ACM Turing Awar…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Vincent Rijmen (March 2024) 1:09:47

4M ago1:09:47

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Vincent Rijmen is one of the co-creators of the NIST-defined AES standard (also known as Rijndael). He also co-designed the WHIRLPOOL hashing method, along with designing other block ciphers, such as Square and SHARK. In 2002, Vincent was included in the Top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, and, along with Joan Daemen, was awarded t…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Whitfield Diffie 1:06:12

5M ago1:06:12

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Whitfield Diffie is one of the greatest Computer Scientists ever. He - along with Marty Hellman - was one of the first to propose the usage of public key encryption and co-created the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange method. Overall, the Diffie-Hellman method is still used in virtually every Web connection on the Internet, and has changed from usin…

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Thank You, IBM … Here’s To Another 100 Years 21:48

5M ago21:48

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I do what I do because of one company … IBM. Why? Because in the 1970s, I got into computers, with a ZX81 (1KB of RAM) and a Dragon 32 (32 KB of RAM). They were very much home computers, and where you would rush out and buy the latest computer magazine, and then spend a happy evening entering some BASIC code that made a cursor move across the scree…

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The Builder of Our Future: Torben P Pedersen 37:21

5M ago37:21

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I have been lucky enough to speak to some of the most amazing people who have built the core of security on the Internet, and a person near the top of my list is … Torben P. Pedersen. The Pedersen Commitment So how do we create a world where we can store our secrets in a trusted and then reveal them when required? Let’s say I predict the outcome of…

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Inspired Edinburgh: An Interview with Professor Bill Buchanan OBE 1:27:05

5M ago1:27:05

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_kMmbvu9VMBy Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Just Crypto Magic, Be A Teacher, And The King and Queen of Cybersecurity 15:51

5M ago15:51

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There short podcast on Just Magic, Be A Teacher, And The King and Queen of Cybersecurity Magic: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/magic-from-heaven-to-earth-1837a1a1206e The Silly World of Cybersecurity https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-silly-world-of-cybersecurity-a1143b90d3f0 Giving Back What Others Have Gi…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Bruce Schneier (Feb 2024) 56:54

5M ago56:54

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This seminar series runs for students in the Applied Cryptography and Trust module but invites guests from students from across the university. This seminar series runs for students on the Applied Cryptography and Trust module but invites guests from students from across the university. He has created a wide range of cryptographic methods, includin…

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A Full Diary of a Cyber Crime .. From Phishing to Profit - Part 1 10:22

7M ago10:22

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I’m going to show a full timeline of a Cyber Crime to show the steps that a scammer will take in order to gain funds from their target. Overall, I’m interested in seeing how a scamming crime evolves to the point of profit for the scammer. https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/a-full-diary-of-a-cyber-crime-from-phishing-to-profit-23ab5…

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A Full Diary of a Cyber Crime .. From Phishing to Profit - Part 2 15:19

7M ago15:19

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I’m going to show a full timeline of a Cyber Crime to show the steps that a scammer will take in order to gain funds from their target. Overall I’m interested in seeing how a scamming crime evolves to the point of profit for the scammer. https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/a-full-diary-of-a-cyber-crime-from-phishing-to-profit-23ab53…

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Matthew Green 59:03

9M ago59:03

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Matthew is a cryptographer and academic at Johns Hopkins University and has designed and analyzed cryptographic systems used in wireless networks, payment systems and digital content protection platforms. A key focus of his work is in the promotion of user privacy. He has an extensive following on X/Twitter (140K followers) and his blog covers impo…

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Professor Peter Andras: Thoughts on AI, Research and Education 1:33:45

10M ago1:33:45

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Professor Peter Andras is the Dean of the School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment. Previously, Peter was the Head of the School of Computing and Mathematics (2017 – 2021) and Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at Keele University from 2014 – 2021. Prior to this he worked at Newcastle University in the School of Computing…

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Bill Buchanan - Which People Have Secured Our Digital World More Than Any Other? 7:57

10M ago7:57

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And, so, if you could pick one or two people who have contributed most to our online security, who would it be? Ron Rivest? Shafi Goldwasser? Ralph Merkle? Marty Hellman? Whitfield Diffie? Neal Koblitz? Well, in terms of the number of data bytes protected, that prize is likely to go to Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, and who created the Rijndael me…

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Bill Buchanan - Test-of-Time (ToT) for Research Papers: Some Papers Rocket, Some Papers Crash, and But Most Never Go Anywhere 8:44

10M ago8:44

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In research, the publishing of high-quality papers is often critical for the development of a research career: “I am an academic. It’s publish or perish.” Daniel J Bernstien. But often we measure the work in terms of quality rather than quantity. One high-quality research paper is probably worth more than the millions of papers published in predato…

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Bill Buchanan - PQC Gets A Tombstone Notice 7:55

11M ago7:55

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And, so, we are moving into one of the greatest changes that we ever see on the Internet, and where we will translate from our existing public key infrastructures towards Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) methods. At the present time, NIST has approved one key exchange/public key encryption method (Kyber) and three digital signature methods (Dilithiu…

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Bill Buchanan - Be More BBN Than IBM 7:59

11M ago7:59

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Please excuse me for using IBM in the title — I have the greatest of respect for a company that has continued to lead and innovate over the past six decades (and who have existed for over a century). The point of this article is to showcase where you, your team or your company have a deep passion for doing something great. For this, we go back to t…

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Bill Buchanan - A Bluffer’s Guide To Encryption In The Cloud: Top 100 20:55

11M ago20:55

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In cybersecurity, the teaching of Cloud security is often weak. So, here are my Top 100 things about encryption in the Cloud. I’ve focused on AWS, but Azure is likely to also be applicable. Keys are created in the AWS KMS (Key Management Store). In Azure, this is named KeyVault. The cost of using a key in KMS is around $1/month (prorated hourly). W…

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Bill Buchanan - Top 101 Tips for a PhD student and ECR 18:51

11M ago18:51

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Well, here are a few tips for PhD students and ECR (Early Career Researchers): Enjoy doing research. It is fun and one of the few times in your career when it is solely your work. To do a PhD is a privilege and not a chore. You will likely look back on it as one of the most useful things you did in your whole career. You will always hit a dip in yo…

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Bill Buchanan - 100 Interesting Things to Learn About Cryptography 31:13

11M ago31:13

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Here are my 100 interesting things to learn about cryptography: For a 128-bit encryption key, there are 340 billion billion billion billion possible keys. [Calc: 2**128/(1e9**4)] For a 256-bit encryption key, there are 115,792 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion possible keys. [Calc: 2**256/(1e9**8)] To crack a 128-bit e…

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Talking with Tech Leaders: A Chat with Michael Phair (Be-IT) 1:09:21

11M ago1:09:21

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Interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-with-tech-leaders/id1533642699 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11PmWm0mlGQNAhVn8wYnInBy Michael Phair

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Bill Buchanan - A Vision for the NHS: A Citizen Wallet 6:26

11M ago6:26

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Your organisation needs a vision. Without it, you will never be great. You will never advance. You will keep doing the same old things and without any real purpose. A vision gives you a purpose and a focus. But, it needs to have a plan which takes you there. But, without it, how can you ever plan? For any great organisation, you start with a vision…

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Bill Buchanan - Let’s Talk About Spreadsheets 5:14

11M ago5:14

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I remember attending a talk many years ago, and the presenter said, “I’ve got this amazing tool called Lotus 123”, and he gave a practical demo of doing some calculations. People in the audience were stunned by the simplicity of its operation. It was the birth of the thing that drives many businesses … spreadsheets. They are just so simple to use, …

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Bill Buchanan - A Bluffer’s Guide to Blockchain: 100 Knowledge Snippets 27:23

11M ago27:23

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So, here’s my Top 100 snippets of knowledge for blockchain: Blockchains use public key methods to integrate digital trust. Bob signs for a transaction with his private key, and Alice proves this with Bob's public key. The first usable public key method was RSA — and created by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman. It was first published in 1979 and defined i…

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Bill Buchanan - Dead Man’s PLC (DM-PLC) 8:46

11M ago8:46

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Blog: here. You can just imagine the movie trailer … “Your worst enemy has taken over all your flights, and you cannot remove them from your network. They demand a $1 billion ransom, or else they will bring every flight down. Bob accidentally removes one of the controllers — you now only have 25 minutes to save the lives of those in the air!” We ha…

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Bill Buchanan - The 100 Basic Rules of Cryptography (and Secure Programming) 14:43

11M ago14:43

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Kerckhoff’s principle defines that “a Cryptographic system should be designed to be secure, even if all its details, except for the key, are publicly known”, but there aren’t too many other rules defined. So here are my 100 Basic Rules of Cryptography (and Secure Programming). First, my Top 10: Cryptography is both an art and a science. Cryptograph…

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Bill Buchanan - A Novice Mistake: Meet Milk Sad … And The 32-bit Key!!!!!! 4:18

11M ago4:18

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A team of developers at Distrust and others has discovered a weakness in the cryptographic methods of creating a random seed for the Libbitcoin Explorer wallet. This is allegedly behind a number of cryptocurrency thefts on 12 July 2023, and on November 2022. The vulnerability has been given the CVE identifier of CVE-2023–39910 and dubbed Milk Sad […

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Bill Buchanan - In Cybersecurity, It’s All About Threats, Vulnerabilities, Mitigations, Detection and Risks 20:50

11M ago20:50

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As humans we are driven by risks and threats, and where we are continually weighing-up costs and benefits. A threat is an actual thing that could actually cause harm, loss or damage, whereas a risk is the likelihood of a specific threat happening. In our lives, too, we expose ourselves through vulnerabilities, and which are our weaknesses and which…

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Bill Buchanan - Meet New PQC Signature Contenders 9:29

11M ago9:29

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Digital signatures are the foundation of our digital trust. With this, Bob has a key pair: a private key and a public key. In order to provide his identity, he signs a hash of a message with his private key, and then Alice proves this with his public key. Currently, we mainly use RSA, ECDSA and EdDSA for our signature methods, and where DSA signatu…

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Bill Buchanan - When The Government Can’t Even Protect and Encrypt Our Data … What Chance The Rest? 5:35

11M ago5:35

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Lessons from the cybersecurity rule book for government: Lesson 1: If you have PII (Personally Identifiable Information), you should encrypt it. Lesson 2: Lock down access to encrypted data and require multifactor authentication for access. Lesson 3: All communications with citizens should be stored in an encrypted form. Lesson 4: The transmission …

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Bill Buchanan - One Of The Greatest Protocols — and One of The Greatest Weaknesses — of the Internet … Meet The Mighty BGP 17:16

11M ago17:16

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/one-of-the-greatest-protocols-and-one-of-the-greatest-weaknesses-of-the-internet-meet-the-d8201a1e6e80 So the Internet isn’t the large-scale distributed network that DARPA tried to create, and which could withstand a nuclear strike on any part of it. At its core is a centralised infrastructu…

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Bill Buchanan - My Five Favouriate/Least Favouriate Computer Programming Languages 10:52

11M ago10:52

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/my-five-favouriate-least-favouriate-computer-programming-languages-dd8a560c27a I love programming and think that every child should be taught it at school at an early age — and, for me, coding is for everyone. As an artist uses paint and a canvas, programming allows me to practice my art — c…

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Bill Buchanan - The Wacky World of JavaScript and npm: Protecting The Software Supply Chain 6:20

11M ago6:20

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-wacky-world-of-javascript-and-npm-protecting-the-software-supply-chain-not-25662cfd1b66 JavaScript is the best and the worst of computer programming. It is able to exist in both the front end (the browser) and in the back end (with Node.js). It basically saved the Web as we moved from st…

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Bill Buchanan - Only 51 Have Been Found - Here's Mersenne Primes 10:12

11M ago10:12

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Blog post: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/only-51-have-been-found-heres-mersenne-primes-4c296a3d8091 And, so what’s the next number in the sequence 3, 7, 31, and 127? Well, it’s 8,191, and I will explain why in a little minute. If you need to test with prime numbers — such as with public key encryption — how do you remember som…

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Bill Buchanan - A Bluffers Guide To Symmetric Key Encryption Modes 8:49

11M ago8:49

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/a-bluffers-guide-to-symmetric-key-encryption-modes-f7882881f6d Symmetric key encryption involves a single key to encrypt and decrypt and where Bob and Alice can use the same encryption key. The two most popular symmetric key methods are AES — Advanced Encryption Standard — and ChaCha20. Alon…

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Bill Buchanan - Lesson 1 in Secure Programming: Don't Reuse Your IVs 6:50

11M ago6:50

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/lesson-1-in-secure-programming-dont-reuse-your-ivs-5666ddfa9a1c I wrote up an article on a recent Samsung vulnerability [here], and one comment said … “it’s an old bug, reuse of IV (Initialisation Vectors) seem a very basic problem”. On the face of it, the comment perhaps doesn’t go into eno…

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Bill Buchanan - The Art of the Backdoor 19:16

11M ago19:16

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-art-of-the-backdoor-e39f001ea8b9 Do you ever worry that your locksmith may take a copy of your key when they fit a new lock? Or that your locksmith has defined a lock which they know they have a skeleton key for? Or that your locksmith modifies the lock so that they can compromise it? An…

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Bill Buchanan - My Bluffer’s Guide to Spin-out Success 11:06

11M ago11:06

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I often get asked about what makes a successful university spin-out, so here are my observation for any budding academic team looking to spin out: You need a solid academic base. A PhD programme is often an excellent base for a spin-out, as it involves three or more years of extensive study into every aspect of a given field. This involves both a m…

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Bill Buchanan - Just Git ... and Smashing Windows 8:05

11M ago8:05

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There’s one little program that I could not do my work without … Git. And, so, our digital world needs to say a great thanks to the wonderful Linus Torvalds. In fact, without him, our digital world would be a whole lot more locked-down and controlled by large and faceless companies. Without Linus, we would probably now be dominated by Microsoft Win…

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Leaders in Digital Identity and Blockchain: Chris Were 1:20:57

11M ago1:20:57

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Chris Were is the CEO of the Verdia network. More details here. YouTube video: here.By Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Bill Buchanan - TETRA:BURST 10:33

12M ago10:33

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/tetra-burst-42773a490b35 Introduction Anyone can create a cipher. Basically, Bob and Alice do some modulo maths and could encrypt their secret messages into ciphertext by multiplying by 10 and adding 5, and then to decrypt back into plaintext, they would just subtract the ciphertext by 5 and…

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Cryptography Fundamentals 10: ElGamal Encryption and Signatures 9:32

12M ago9:32

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Blog: https://billatnapier.medium.com/cryptography-fundamentals-elgamal-encryption-and-signature-2de5f16b1127 ElGamal methods: https://asecuritysite.com/elgamal Introduction In research, we build on the shoulders of giants, and Taher Elgamal is one of the giants of cybersecurity. His work on Netscape led to the creation of SSL, and for which much o…

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Bill Buchanan - Passion, Leadership and Responsibility 7:23

12M ago7:23

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Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/passion-leadership-and-responsibility-ded697c73c76 Introduction I have been involved in enterprise and innovation for quite a while. I love it, and where I have had the opportunity to think and dream and kick-start things that flourish in the future. Some things have worked, and other things…

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