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Cool stuff, man. Where do you think your book stands in relation to other books like Cryptography Engineering? Should people new to crypto read your book befor
by bqe 13y ago
Cool stuff, man.
Where do you think your book stands in relation to other books like Cryptography Engineering? Should people new to crypto read your book before or after CE, or instead of?
- lvh 13y agoThanks! This is definitely in the same space as CE. When I just started writing this, tptacek wrote: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cryptography/ http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cryp... ... and that was a huge motivator and inspiration to me. So: 1. (Unlike Applied Cryptography) focus on things that you are actually likely to hit in the wild 2. (Unlike Cryptography Engineering) Written today, and hopefully perpetually updated; including things like ECC, all sorts of CBC attacks, et cetera. 3. (Unlike either) Free of charge, and freely redistributable :)
- bqe 13y agoAbout #3, have you considered hosting a git repo with your (presumably LaTeX) source so that others can contribute?
- lvh 13y agoYeah; there's a link somewhere in the "Development" section. It's org-mode, though: https://github.com/crypto101/book https://github.com/crypto101/book Everything about this project (except the TLS keys) is on Github.