https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-wong-53170a4/ (David Wong) is a security engineer working on the https://libra.org/en-US/ (libra Blockchain) at Facebook. He is an active contributor to internet standards like Transport Layer Security and to the applied cryptography research community.
David is a recognized authority in the field of applied cryptography; he’s spoken at large security conferences like Black Hat and https://def.camp/speaker/david-wong/ (DEF CON) and has delivered cryptography training sessions in the industry. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography (Real-World Cryptography book).
In this episode, we discuss why he focused on cryptography, the evolution of blockchain, his contributions to TLS, the Noise Protocol Framework, quantum computing, why he wrote a book on crypto, presenting and teaching cryptography, sanitizing data, and so much more!
Where you can find David:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-wong-53170a4/ (LinkedIn)
https://twitter.com/cryptodavidw (Twitter)
https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography (Real-Word Cryptography)
https://www.cryptologie.net/ (Cryptologie.net)
https://noiseprotocol.org/ (Noiseprotocol.org)