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I attended this conference and spoke with the presenter about his talk both before and after. My takeaway was that the presenter was trying to accomplish one thing: educate front-end developers who (rightly or not) have been characterized as unfamiliar or ignorant of cryptographic techniques with a survey of those techniques. I believe this was the sense "Bringing Crypto To The Masses" was meant.

I appreciated the energy and enthusiasm the speaker had for the subject matter and would be delighted if any of that transferred into his audience, but I don't feel it was effectively communicated. In the time constraints presented, even something as simple as, say, discussing what cryptographic hashing (or symmetric crypto or public key crypto or digital signing, take your pick) was and doing a deep dive only in this domain would have been a valuable experience and opened a lot of eyes. I'm fairly familiar with all the topics discussed during this talk and I had a difficult time following along with it. I can't imagine what the experience of the intended audience was or what they managed to glean from it.