2025-08-09 –, Cassiopeia
Language: English
Everybody talks about cryptography, but only a few understand what it means. This interactive session will explain the very basics of cryptography and will leave the attendants with more confidence why to use cryptography.
Many talks mentioned cryptography somewhere along the presentation and everybody just nods. But how many people actually know the insights of cryptography? Why some things work and some things don't? During this talk I will explain the difference between encoding and encryption, the most common uses of cryptography, the difference between synchronous and asynchronous encryption, hashes. I will include some history and some future developments like quantum and why we call cryptocoin cryptocoin. In a slow pace, scratching the surface for uninitiated, but the scratches will go deep enough for more initiated to get some more background.
With over 25 years of professional IT experience, 20 of which in the field of cybersecurity, Dirk knows his stuff. Being slightly neurodiverse, Dirk build up a vast knowledge in all fields of cybersecurity, ranging from pentesting to threat hunting to awareness to compliance to OT and even rockets. Dirk always returns to the community in the form of input to various projects, but also providing training to transfer his knowledge.