PyCon Pune 2017

“One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
― Jacob Appelbaum

May, 2013 - Snowden
MMM, YYYY - Various corporate breaches, bugs, crypto attacks, privacy breaches

Cryptography is perhaps the single most important computer science concept today. Experts have made remarkable advances in the field, and yet the field seems largely complex and unapproachable due to scary mathematical concepts like factorization, elliptic curves, etc.

Awareness of cryptosystems is very essential today, and this talk aims to bridge that barrier.

This talk will be a modern cryptographic primer.

Outline

Agenda

• 10 min: Becoming friends with Number theory, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. A little bit of socialisation.
• 10 min: Crypto-systems to-dos and to-not-dos, RSA, PGP, AES, TLS, and more 3-letter acronyms!
• 10 min: pip install cryptography
• 10 min: How to have really interesting conversations with other people that include words like blockchain.

Requirements

• Water bottle for being hydrated
• Meditate and prepare for a fast-paced crypto-attack!

Speaker bio

I’m a Senior Data Scientist at Craftsvilla.com, where I manage initiatives to improve business with advanced intelligence and machine learning.

Previously, I was a data scientist and consultant at Gramener, where I advised and built data solutions for companies including Deloitte, Airbus, Novartis, and Star India. Before that, I built a few products at Verisign.

I’m involved with Internet Society, Life With Data, DataKind and Invati.org in various capacities. I speak regularly at conferences and meet-ups in India.

Links

• • Website: https://suhas.org
• • Twitter: https://twitter.com/jargnar
• • Pycon 2015 talk on meta-programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPk57osSEgw
• • Pycon 2016 talk on hacking abstract syntax trees: https://in.pycon.org/cfp/2016/proposals/hacking-the-python-ast~b6W7d/
• • JSFoo 2015 talk on meta-programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxOs9KJFPs
• • Github: https://github.com/jargnar