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Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Hosted by Tim Callan and Jason Soroko

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Episodes

628

Latest episode

Jun 2026

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EN

About the show

Digital certificate industry veterans Tim Callan and Jason Soroko explore the issues surrounding digital identity, PKI, and cryptographic connections in today's dynamic and evolving computing world. Best practices in digital certificates are continually under pressure from technology trends, new laws and regulations, cryptographic advances, and the evolution of our computing architectures to be more virtual, agile, ubiquitous, and cloud-based. Jason and Tim (and the occasional guest subject matter expert) will help you stay current on developments in this essential technology platform and to understand the whys and wherefores of popular Public Key Infrastructures.

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June 15, 202616 min

Root Causes 629: Does the Evidence Support Moving PQC Deadlines to 2029?

Sam Jaques of the University of Waterloo returns to discuss his tracking of progress in quantum computers and offer a perspective on moving our PQC deadlines up to 2029.

June 12, 20269 min

Root Causes 628: PI-DOS (Prompt Injection-based Denial of Service)

An emerging attack against AIs is to create a significantly complex and recursive prompt that will occupy the AI indefinitely or for a sufficiently long time that it acts as a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. We describe how this works.

June 10, 20265 min

Root Causes 627: UK vs Apple E2EE Backups

In the latest in our coverage of government versus encryption, the UK issued secret orders to Apple to give it a cryptographic backdoor to Apple's advanced data protection capability for iCloud. Apple responded by eliminating encryption entirely for UK users. We break it down.

June 8, 202610 min

Root Causes 626: TLS 1.3 Roadblock

TLS 1.3 is required to take advantage of post quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. Yes, we still see a lot of TLS 1.2 or earlier in deployment. We examine why this is the case and what to do about it.

June 5, 20268 min

Root Causes 625: AI in 1000 Days - Cyber Defense

Recent revelations about Mythos and its ability to expose vulnerabilities have forced us to rethink basic assumptions about cyber defense. In our "AI in 1000 Days" series, Jason Soroko and I examine the implications of these revelations three years from now. This includes upping the overall pace of attack and changes to best practices in cyber security defense.

June 3, 202615 min

Root Causes 624: Implications of Mythos

Anthropic has delayed its widespread release of Mythos to give major software providers a chance to close off the many vulnerabilities it has discovered. We dig into the vast implications of Mythos and other AI models for the future of cybersecurity.

June 1, 20268 min

Root Causes 623: Are PQC Key Sized Big Enough?

We discuss the possibility that our standardized ML-DSA keys turn out to be too short for true confidence, why that might occur, and the implications for private PKI certificates.

May 29, 202615 min

Root Causes 622: Modeling the Time to CRQC

Sam Jaques joins us to explain his much-referenced chart mapping progress toward cryptographically relevant quantum computing (CRQC).

May 26, 20265 min

Root Causes 621: Simplicity at Scale

We break down the phrase "Simplicity at Scale" to see what it means to us in the context of CAs and CLM.

May 22, 20269 min

Root Causes 620: Will NIST Update Its PQC Timelines?

A few years ago NIST proposed deadlines for PQC deployment at 2030 and 2035. But recent announcements from Google and Cloudflare suggest 2029 as a better deprecation target. We are joined by Dustin Moody to get the NIST perspective on these announcements.

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