David Wong - What is Applied Cryptography? #121
David Wong is a security engineer working on the libra Blockchain at Facebook. He is an active contributor to internet standards like Transport Layer Security and to the applied cryptography research community.
David is a recognized authority in the field of applied cryptography; he’s spoken at large security conferences like Black Hat and DEF CON and has delivered cryptography training sessions in the industry. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published Real-World Cryptography book.
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A note from Grant
If you like math, secrets, privacy and cryptocurrency, today’s guest is right up your alley. David Wong is a security engineer currently working for Facebook, with deep expertise in blockchain and more generally cryptography.
After earning his bachelor’s in Math and his masters in cryptography, David has worked for the likes of Matasano Security, NCC Group and now Facebook. In addition to his day job, David is the author of the upcoming Manning Publications book titled “Real-World Cryptography”, which you can purchase now in early access from manning.com.
As always, we are doing a give away with this episode. For the first 5 people who email us here at [email protected], we will give you a code good for one free ebook copy of David’s book. If you don’t want to email, you can use the discount code poddevmen20 for 40% of David’s book as well as all Manning books.
Quotes
“Cryptography started as a military thing in the beginning. But today everybody is using it without even know it. It all started with how we can hide communication from observers.”
“Especially if you’re in tech, understand that if you have one offer you’re probably going to have several offers. It’s not true for every field but tech is hiring and we’re in a good position. Keep going, don’t be afraid to say no or to ask for more time to decide.”
—David Wong
Additional Resources
David’s book - https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography
David’s blog - https://cryptologie.net/
Course on how to learn on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJMt6zV1c7FN3IjBDr9lydgqGzh_SqHV
