Programming Throwdown Episode 117, Authentication with Aviad Mizrahi. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. So, you know, when you get to your house, you know, or the place where you live,

you have your key, you kind of turn it in the lock, and you get in. And if someone else has a

different key, or if they don't show up with a key, they can't get into your house. And this seems pretty straightforward, right? And also,

if you give your key to somebody else, they can get into your house. Right. So authentication

sort of in the real world makes a ton of sense, right? But authentication over the internet

where, you know, you're sending this information to all these different computers

so it could get to its destination that seems pretty wild and it seems pretty unclear like

how that can actually work and how that can be safe and so it's a really interesting topic

I'm really fascinated by it and we have an expert we We have Aviad Mizrahi on the show, who's the CTO of Fronteg, to kind of dive really deep into this and talk about authentication, how it actually works. So thank you so much for coming on the show, Aviad. Yeah, thank you guys. Thank you for having me. Cool. So yeah, before we kind of really

dive deep on the technical stuff, it'd be really great to hear, you know, kind of your background and,

you know, your kind of experiences and what kind of path you took to get you where you are now

working on Fronteg,

which is a kind of platform that handles authentication

and a bunch of other things.

But what's kind of your background in computer science?

Yeah, sure.

So I've been coding professionally for the last 20 years,

been working on really exciting projects.

And with the era of everything moving to the web, like I shifted my expertise.

I started coding, like, as I said, professionally when I was 20, just out of the army in Israel, started walking my way up with C++ and Dotnet, which was really hot these days.

But around, I would say, five to eight years where everything shifted around the web and products start evolving.

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