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Cryptography Videos Recommended on Hacker News (90)
Cryptography is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 90 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 253 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Cryptography: encryption, public key, RSA, elliptic curves, TLS, hashing, zero-knowledge proofs, Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, passwords, history of codes and ciphers, Enigma.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Behind the Scenes of iOS Security: “if you haven't watched the talk at Black Hat I'd highly recommend it” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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11 mo on HNBehind the Scenes of iOS Security
Black Hat
9 HN recommender · 2016–2026
11 mo on HNWhy Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
Tom Scott
11 HN recommender · 2020–2026
11 mo on HNBut how does bitcoin actually work?
3Blue1Brown
15 HN recommender · 2017–2024
8 mo on HNDiffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Art of the Problem
9 HN recommender · 2016–2024
7 mo on HNBlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
Christiaan008
9 HN recommender · 2011–2017
8 mo on HNBlockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)
HBS Digital Initiative
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNLine Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Folding Ideas
12 HN recommender · 2022–2026
7 mo on HNTheory and Practice of Cryptography
Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2011–2019
6 mo on HNWhy Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile
Computerphile
7 HN recommender · 2015–2025
5 mo on HNThe Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
Folding Ideas
6 HN recommender · 2023–2025
5 mo on HNBitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn
Independent POV
6 HN recommender · 2013–2014
5 mo on HNLibreSSL with Bob Beck
Jason Tubnor
6 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HNKim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox
TheBitcoinArmy
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
5 mo on HNWas YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile
Numberphile
5 HN recommender · 2016–2024
4 mo on HNDEF CON 19 - Moxie Marlinspike - SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HNBitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto
Barely Sociable
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNExposing Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret
Coffeezilla
7 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNBlockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]
aantonop
3 HN recommender · 2017–2017
4 mo on HNFlaw in the Enigma Code - Numberphile
Numberphile
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HNThe Only Safe Phone Is One Even the Police Can't Unlock
CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNBlockchain 101 - A Visual Demo
Anders Brownworth
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNComputer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
WIRED
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNVitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNDefeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
TheSecurityTube
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
3 mo on HNHow secure is 256 bit security?
3Blue1Brown
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere
Swan Bitcoin
5 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNHow Does SHA-256 Work?
learnmeabitcoin
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNMoxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
Techworld Sverige
3 HN recommender · 2015–2021
3 mo on HNLecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar
Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar
3 HN recommender · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNPeter Rizun, Andrew Stone -- 1 GB Block Tests -- Scaling Bitcoin Stanford.
OnChain Scaling
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNCracking Enigma in 2021 - Computerphile
Computerphile
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN35C3 - The year in post-quantum crypto
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2019–2019
3 mo on HNHow Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained
minutephysics
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNAndreas Antonopoulos - 51% Bitcoin Attack
Rodolfo Díaz
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNBrian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4
PyCon 2016
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNLibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds
Andrea Ross
3 HN recommender · 2014–2022