Yael Tauman Kalai & Daniele Micciancio | Polylogues

In this episode of Polylogues, Science Communicator in Residence Lakshmi Chandrasekaran sits down with two of the senior participants in our Summer 2025 Cryptography program, Yael Tauman Kalai (MIT) and Daniele Micciancio (UC San Diego). The three of them discuss developments in lattice-based cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption, the gap between theoretical cryptography and its practical applications, ethics in cryptography research for the post-quantum era, and the unique culture of crypto as a field.