Episode 12: Special Real World Crypto 2021 Pre-Conference Coverage!

Every year, the IACR Real World Cryptography symposium brings
together researchers, engineers and practitioners in applied
cryptography to discuss cryptography that matters, in the real
world. To me, this is the big one! The one cryptography conference
that matters the most. Who needs proceedings when you’ve got so
much excitement in the air, and so many results and projects that
actually have a measurable impact on how cryptography affects the
real world? This year’s program is maybe the most exciting yet,
with talks on secure channel protocols, multiparty computation,
formal methods, post-quantum cryptography, humans, policy and
cryptography, hardware, cryptocurrency, cryptography for the cloud,
anonymity and more. So many exciting talks! So much new research to
discuss! Like every year, Real World Crypto is shaping up to be a
veritable who’s who of applied cryptography. In this special
episode of Cryptography FM, I’m joined by fellow researcher
Benjamin Lipp in order to just… candidly go through the program of
Real World Crypto 2021 and covering each talk’s abstract briefly.
We’re going to have another special episode after Real World Crypto
2021 as a post-conference episode in order to discuss the
highlights of the conference. And hopefully we’ll do this every
year here on Cryptography FM! Music composed by Toby Fox and
performed by The Consouls
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jUwV8_h7ZY). Special Guest:
Benjamin Lipp.