Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Tim Callan and Jason Soroko

Digital certificate industry veterans Tim Callan …

  • 9 minutes 16 seconds
    Root Causes 571: Will There Ever Be a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer?
    We discuss the idea that it might be impossible to actually create a cryptographically relevant quantum computer and weigh in on this idea.
    23 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 12 minutes 9 seconds
    Root Causes 570: PQC Readiness at the Boardroom Level
    Repeat guest Chris McGrath shares what enterprises need to be doing now to stay on track for the NIST PQC deadline in 2030.
    21 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 9 minutes 58 seconds
    Root Causes 569: New Regulations Are Changing the PKI Landscape
    Repeat guest Chris McGrath joins us to discuss how increasingly strict regulations are requiring increased rigor, visibility, and auditability for enterprise digital certificates and PKI.
    19 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 12 minutes 35 seconds
    Root Causes 568: Upping Your Certificate Game for Better Security
    Senior cyber security advisor Chris McGrath joins us to discuss redefining digital certificates and their role in your organizational security profile, increasing regulation of certificates, and how enterprises can up their certificate game.
    16 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 20 minutes 44 seconds
    Root Causes 567: Top 10 PQC Laggards in the Enterprise
    We name the ten enterprise environments and use cases that are most likely to be late adopters of post quantum cryptography (PQC).
    14 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 12 minutes 18 seconds
    Root Causes 566: Time Is a Security Primitive
    We discuss the foundational importance of time in PKI and security in general. This includes when things happen, the order in which things happen, and attacks based on time-spoofing. We drill down on certificates, roots, timestamping, Certificate Transparency, patching, audits, and PQC.
    12 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 11 minutes 36 seconds
    Root Causes 565: Our Response to QWAC Arguments - Part 3
    In our concluding episode on the topic, we scrutinize arguments made for and against QWACs, this time focused on "compliance and interoperability."
    8 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 15 minutes 58 seconds
    Root Causes 563: Our Response to QWAC Arguments - Part 1
    As a follow up to our episode 546, we break down the first of three sets of arguments about QWACs and examine their level of validity.
    5 January 2026, 9:07 pm
  • 11 minutes 21 seconds
    Root Causes 564: Our Response to QWAC Arguments - Part 2
    In our second of three episodes on the topic, we scrutinize arguments made for and against QWACs, this time focused on "governance and sovereignty."
    5 January 2026, 12:00 am
  • 7 minutes 57 seconds
    Root Causes 562 : What Is a Side Oracle Attack?
    You may have heard of side channel attacks. Now Jason explains what a side oracle attack is and how a side oracle attack in conjunction with AI could be effective against the HQC or Falcon PQC algorithms.
    30 December 2025, 12:00 am
  • 7 minutes 54 seconds
    Root Causes 561: What Is Classic McEliece?
    One of the NIST Round 3 PQC finalists that was never selected or eliminated is Classic McEliece. In this episode we explain in non-math terms how this algorithm works.
    23 December 2025, 12:00 am
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