Thanks for discussing this on SNL, @Car!

You are right, Dan Bernstein should definitely be interviewed on a Bitcoin podcast, for his opinions on this Post-Quantum Cryptography standards issue. He would also be amazing to talk about the threat to cryptography in general from quantum computing, his estimated timelines on that, and other cryptography and privacy related issues of the day. As a prestigious academic, he might not want to appear on a highly visible Bitcoin podcast, for reputational reasons, but its definitely worth asking. I'll DM Danny Knowles about it, maybe he'll respond.

Note that Dan is also famous for having sued the U.S. Government in the 1990's, when they considered cryptography to be munitions, and placed export controls on it, thus limiting Dan's ability to legally publish his source code. He won his case on the grounds that prohibition on code publishing was a violation of his First Amendment rights. The case established code as speech, paving the way for the widespread deployment of privacy technology. He's kind of a big deal!