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Theory and Practice of Cryptography

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

CryptographySecurity & hacking

What it is

A Google Tech Talk by Steve Weis that introduces modern cryptography and its use in practice and at Google. It covers proofs of security and security definitions and a special topic. HN commenters treat it as a talk on verifiable electronic voting.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN keeps pointing to it as a long, fascinating talk on cryptographic, verifiable voting whenever e-voting security comes up.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “I can't believe this talk hasn't been posted yet!”

    Verifiable voter secret ballots, impossible to prove to others

    kaoD, 2016-11 · Strong recommendation · in “An idea for encrypted, verifiable voting”

  2. “post some epic content for the more advanced programmer.”

    Advanced cryptography talk from Google channels

    maeon3, 2011-02 · Recommendation · in “Free university lectures on computer science”

  3. “Here's a long but fascinating tech talk on a real solution”

    Long talk on a cryptographic voting solution

    aianus, 2014-07 · Recommendation · in “Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret””

  4. “And heres a good talk by Ben Adida speaking at Google”

    Ben Adida on verifying elections with cryptography

    grzm, 2016-10 · Recommendation · in “In Pennsylvania, Claims of a Rigged Election May Be Impossible to Disprove”

  5. “There was this interesting talk years ago.”

    Interesting talk on electronic voting opacity

    bubblethink, 2019-02 · Recommendation · in “Bounty Hunt Announced on Swiss eVoting System”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: cryptography, e-voting, verifiable elections, security proofs, google tech talk

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