Want To Learn Cryptography? Understand The Principles: Here’s Some Podcasts

I may be wrong, but those with excellent skills in cryptography, earn some of the highest salaries in the industry. Why? Well, in research roles, a role often requires reading research papers, writing research papers, drafting patents, implementing code, testing methods, and understanding the details of fairly complex methods. Some of the job roles I’ve seen for senior cryptography roles exceed $250K — and all working remotely.

Anyway, cryptography and encryption must be at the core of cybersecurity, in order to implement CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability) or AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting). Along with this, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is the core of trust on the Internet. So learning cryptography should build a strong base of knowledge in understanding cybersecurity.

The problem with cryptography is that many miss some fundamental knowledge that will allow them to fully understand the key operations that are used. So, in this series of blogs, I try and explain some of the core concepts that secure our online world. Every single time that you connect to the Internet, the privacy and trustworthiness of your connection are dependent on some magical cryptographic operations.