Cryptography 101: Beginner's Guide with Expert Christof Paar 🔐

In this conversation, Christof gives an overview of cryptography for beginners.

Christof Paar is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and Research Professor at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst. He has taught crypto and security courses for 25 years to thousands of students in the US & Europe. He also taught extensively in industry, including courses at NASA, Motorola & Philips. Christof has given invited talks at MIT, Yale, Stanford, IBM and Intel. He co-founded, with Cetin Koc, the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) and has 200+ scientific publications on applied cryptography.

Christof's crypto video series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg

Christof's book, Understanding Cryptography: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Cryptography-Textbook-Students-Practitioners/dp/3642446493

Book site: https://www.crypto-textbook.com/

0:00 Christof Paar Intro
0:57 How Christof got into cryptography
7:10 What is cryptography
9:20 What "Crypto" means
10:05 How crytopocurrencies are getting people into cryptography
10:45 Cryptography used in everyday life
15:10 Problems cryptography solves
17:36 History of cryptographic algorithms
21:40 Applied crypto
30: 25 Is cryptography getting better?
34: 55 Quantum computing and its impact on cryptography
43:10 Do we care more about security now?
49: 15 Backdoors