Crypto 101 (hackerhotel2025)

A short introduction to cryptography, its past, present and future for the not yet fully initiated. Many talks mentioned cryptography somewhere along the presentation and everybody just nods. But how many people actually know the insights of cryptography? Why some things work and some things don't? During this talk I will explain the difference between encoding and encryption, the most common uses of cryptography, the difference between synchronous and asynchronous encryption, hashes. I will include some history and some future developments like quantum and why wel call cryptocoin cryptocoin. In a slow pace, scratching the surface for uninitiated, but the scratches will go deep enough for more initiated to get some more background. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 about this event: https://pretalx.hackerhotel.nl/2025/talk/KPBZKG/