Episode #8
An Odyssey of Lattice Cryptography with Mark Schultz-Wu
We invited Mark Schultz-Wu on the podcast to talk about the history of lattice cryptography. When lattices are explained in plain english, they are actually quite simple! I don't think any of us have ever seen Deirdre so happy. If you're watching the video version, there's a section that's 6.1 minutes long with no cuts and consists just of Deirdre vigorously agreeing with what Mark is saying while smiling. What a time to be alive. Anyway, we are hosting another happy hour in Vegas between Black Hat and DEF CON! It's sponsored by Teleport ! Thank you to Teleport, and dear readers, you should go check them out. Check out our socials or the podcast site to register. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/07/27/lattices-with-mark-schultz-wu/ Links: Mark's IETF Post https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/HznE1IcCjstEjhh4M1p59qX1JlQ/ NTRU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRU The original lattices are hard paper https://www.scirp.org/reference/referencespapers?referenceid=3401227 The original LWE for cryptography paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03703 Entropic LWE https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/119 Dilithium round 3 submission: https://pq-crystals.org/dilithium/data/dilithium-specification-round3.pdf Recent attacks on Classic McEliece: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1694 Lectures on post-quantum cryptography from Alfred Menezes (an originator of elliptic curve cryptography) https://www.youtube.com/@cryptography101-alfred Falcon https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/Presentations/2024/falcon/images-media/prest-falcon-pqc2024.pdf Regev: https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/#research Tightness in Proofs: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/360.pdf "Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)
