Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Carey Parker
4.8from 120 ratings
- 501
- Episodes
- 136
- Transcribed
- 120
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 14K
- YouTube views
About Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
A Podcast on Computer Security & Privacy for Non-Techies
- Publisher
- Carey Parker
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Mar 2017
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
136 of 501 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hold Off on Muse
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Here’s to 500!!
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Solving the AI Paradox
Inside a recent episode
Hold Off on Muse
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a sub-exponential time algorithm, meaning it's a lot slower. But it is somewhat faster than factoring. The authors were able to forge messages for 1024-bit RSA with, get this, 1,380 CPU core years, which in their case was five real-world months. Okay, so that takes a little bit of explaining, but the RSA algorithm that we've been relying on for many years is easy to go one way, hard to go the other way. And they take two massive prime numbers and multiply them together as part of this process for creating public and private keys. And if you could figure out a way to undo that, in other words, in mathematical terms, factor that number back out into its original two prime numbers, you could break it. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Bruce Schneier
- Caroline Kraczon
- Cassie Crossley
- Bob Lord
- Naomi Brockwell
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 14,341
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 67 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 53 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 99
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