PickVidsBest Cryptography Videos
The 90 Cryptography videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 23 intermediate, 48 for a general viewer, and 10 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Computerphile, aantonop, Black Hat.
Behind the Scenes of iOS Security
Apple security head Ivan Krstic gives a Black Hat 2016 talk on iOS security, covering HomeKit, Auto Unlock and iCloud Keychain.
Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
Tom Scott explains why electronic voting is a bad idea.
But how does bitcoin actually work?
3Blue1Brown explains the math and mechanics behind Bitcoin visually: ledgers, digital signatures, proof of work and the blockchain, building up a decentralized payment system from first principles.
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
A short explainer on the history and mechanics of public key cryptography and the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
Moxie Marlinspike's BlackHat 2011 talk examines weaknesses of SSL and the certificate authority system and proposes Convergence, a decentralized notary approach with trust agility.
Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)
James Mickens of Harvard gives a funny lecture at HBS's Future Assembly arguing that blockchains are a very bad idea.
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Dan Olson's roughly two-hour video essay critiques NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, covering their technical, economic, and ideological flaws.
Theory and Practice of Cryptography
A Google Tech Talk by Steve Weis that introduces modern cryptography and its use in practice and at Google.
Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile
Tom Scott explains for Computerphile why electronic voting is a bad idea, arguing that paper ballots are transparent, auditable and hard to tamper with at scale.
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
Dan Olson of Folding Ideas spends months in the virtual world Decentraland and delivers a long critique of the metaverse, NFTs and DAOs, and why virtual worlds fail as places.
Bitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn
Mike Hearn's talk at the 2012 London Bitcoin Conference on the future of Bitcoin, new applications and rebuilding the banking system.
LibreSSL with Bob Beck
Bob Beck of OpenBSD describes the first month of LibreSSL, the fork aimed at cleaning up OpenSSL, including oddities found in the code base and why it was cleaned rather than audited cryptographically.
Kim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox
Kim Nilsson presents his investigation into how Mt.
Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile
Numberphile interviews cryptographer Ron Rivest about end-to-end verifiable voting.
DEF CON 19 - Moxie Marlinspike - SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
Moxie Marlinspike's DEF CON 19 talk on the weaknesses of SSL and the certificate authority system.
Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto
Barely Sociable presents a case that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is cryptographer Adam Back.
Exposing Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret
Coffeezilla gives a comprehensive history of Tether, the stablecoin issued by a company controlled by the owners of Bitfinex.
Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]
Andreas Antonopoulos explains how to tell Bitcoin-style blockchains from corporate blockchain hype.
Flaw in the Enigma Code - Numberphile
Numberphile's Dr James Grime explains the flaw in the Enigma machine, namely that a letter could never be encrypted to itself, and how that helped the Allies break the code.
The Only Safe Phone Is One Even the Police Can't Unlock
A five-minute CGP Grey explainer arguing that a phone is effectively an extension of your mind, and that any backdoor or master key into encrypted devices will inevitably be abused or leaked.
Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo
Anders Brownworth gives a basic visual introduction to blockchain using an interactive web demo, covering SHA256 hashes, blocks, chains, distribution, tokens and coinbase transactions.
Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
WIRED has UCLA professor Amit Sahai explain zero-knowledge proofs to a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student and an expert.
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80
Lex Fridman interviews Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum, cryptocurrency and the future of money.
Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
Moxie Marlinspike's Black Hat talk presenting sslstrip, which defeats SSL in practice by intercepting the http-to-https redirect.