We talk to Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) about the vulnpocalypse and if we even need fuzzers anymore. This episode may be export controlled at a future date.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9CSgB4p9o

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/06/14/facing-the-vulnpocalypse-with-lcamtuf

• https://github.com/google/afl
• https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1tqtenf/anthropic_said_today_that_mythos_is_coming_to_all/
• https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
• https://curl.se/
• https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/025_sack.patch.sig
• https://www.wired.com/story/last-pass-vulnerability-password-safe/
• https://nostarch.com/tangledweb
• https://nostarch.com/silence.htm
• https://nostarch.com/practical-doomsday
• https://nostarch.com/secret-life-of-circuits
• https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)

Returning champion Nicholas Carlini comes back to talk about using Claude for vulnerability research, and the current vulnpocalypse. It's all very high-brow stuff, and the gang learns some bitter lessons.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDbFLu9Ug8

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/

Links:

- https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
- https://unpromptedcon.org/
- Black-hat LLMs
- https://red.anthropic.com/2026/firefox/

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Standardizing cryptography involves a lot of opinions. Luckily, the gamer presidents are on it. Come on, you all know the drill.

This is the last time I do this.

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)