The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
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The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
Using the procedures from some well-known academic papers, software developers around the world implemented some complicated encryption schemes for banks and exchanges. That encryption protected billions of dollars. But the instructions the developers followed had a fatal flaw. Those billions of dollars were suddenly an easy target for criminal and nation state hackers.
Fortunately for all of us, there's a guy named Jim.
Trail of Bits
The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
