A conversation that started with PAKEs (password-authenticated key exchanges) and touched on some cool math things: PRFs, finite fields, elliptic curve groups, anonymity protocols, hashing to curve groups, prime order groups, and more.

With special guest, George Tankersley!

Transcript:
https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2021/10/26/pakes-oprfs-algebra-with-george-tankersley/

Links: 

• SRP deprecation: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/should-you-use-srp
• OPAQUE: https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque-06.html
• obfs: https://github.com/shadowsocks/simple-obfs
• Elligator: https://elligator.cr.yp.to
• Hash to Curve: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve-12.html
• Magic Wormhole: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
• Biscuits: https://github.com/CleverCloud/biscuit
• Ristretto: https://ristretto.group
• Monero signature bug: https://www.getmonero.org/ru/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html
• SIDH smooth-order supersingular curves: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-53018-4_21

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