This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Nigel Smart, a Co-Founder of Unbound Security and Professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Nigel’s reputation as a cryptography expert is well known, and our conversation delivered one of the most in-depth episodes we’ve had on the podcast to date. Nigel is a leading researcher on Elliptic-Curve Cryptography, and his current work at Unbound focuses on Multi-Party Computation, but don’t be fooled into thinking those two topics are the only areas we covered. Nigel left no cryptographic stone untouched as we dove into everything from the foundations of encryption in transit, to the challenges of post-quantum cryptography. This is an episode that anyone involved in the areas of cryptography, privacy, or security absolutely cannot miss. If you liked my conversation with Nigel, be sure to subscribe to The Encrypted Economy for more great episodes covering the future of data protection. If there are other topics that you would like to see more of on the podcast, be sure to reach out and send us some feedback on any of our social media profiles.  

Topics Covered 

• Why Unbound Divorces Data 
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography 
• Post Quantum Security
• Intersecting Nigel’s Work With Digital Assets
• The Obvious and Non-Obvious Use Cases for Unbound
• Securing Data in Use as the Last Mile of Security
• Decentralization, Differential Privacy, and More in Unbound’s Solutions
• The Unbound MPC Labs 

Resource List 

• Nigel’s LinkedIn 
• Nigel’s Website 
• Unbound’s Website 
• My Article on Homomorphic Encryption 
• CORE Key Management w/ Yehuda Lindell
• Boston Wage Gap Study 
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography 
• RSA Cryptosystem 
• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange 
• Lattice Based Cryptography 
• Isogeny Based Cryptography 
• NIST Post Quantum Project 
• ENISA Post Quantum Report 
• WannaCry Ransomware Report 
• Differential Privacy 
• Kerberos Authentication 
• Our Episode with Kurt Rohloff 
• Unbound MPC Labs