>This was going to be a book with very little formulas, but filled with many diagrams. >This was going to be a book with little history, but filled with modern

>This was going to be a book with very little formulas, but filled with many diagrams. >This was going to be a book with little history, but filled with modern stories about cryptographic failures that I had witnessed for real. >This was going to be a book with little about legacy algorithms, but filled with cryptography that I've personally seen being used at scale: TLS, the Noise protocol framework, Wireguard, the Signal protocol, cryptocurrencies, HSMs, threshold cryptography, and so on. >This was going to be a book with little theoretical cryptography, but filled with what could become relevant: password-authentication key exchanges, zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography, and so on. Just the kind of book that appeals to me. Writing books is often a hard thankless job, thanks to the author for doing this. Planning on checking out the early preview and the final version when it is released.