Damn that PDF is a good read. Visuals visuals visuals. Good stuff
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
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Re: Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
#62Cool, thanks! BTW why is EPUB mentioned but not available?
(I'm the author.) Because it's not a priority for me and I never got the org -> epub generation flow working correctly. In particular, the book has a lot of illustrations, and getting illustrations right across a ton of ebook readers is quite complicated. To wit: they all support different formats and to get it more or less compatible you have to guess what the approx DPI is for most of those devices and then rasteri…
I see.
> what the approx DPI is for most of those devices and then rasterize the vector imagery
As far as I know you can use SVG illustrations in EPUB.
Alternatively you probably could rasterize to a redundant resolution and rely on the viewer app to downscale the pictures to fit the page width.
Re: Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recall you saying that "Cryptography Engineering" was much better than AC somewhere. Do you recommend Serious Cryptography over that?
Both books have their strengths. If I had to pick one, it'd be Serious Cryptography, since it's much more up-to-date than Cryptography Engineering is.
Part of our current Humble Bundle, too.
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Hi lvh, Do you intend to complete this book at some indeterminate point in the future? Is there anything that any of us can do to help make it happen?
I'm not sure what "complete" would entail :) For example: would a description of Noise be in scope? I think so but I'm not sure. People come up with new cool stuff that's useful to median developers on the regular (say, NMR) that feels like it ought to be added/updated. So I think it's forever a WIP and that's OK since I'm not really printing the book?
would a description of Noise be in scope?
Yessss! Utterly selfishly: things like 'Noise Protocol Matrix' or 'Nonce misuse resistance 101' are actually closer to your target than XOR diagrams that people can already find on wikipedia.
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It seems that the downloadable pdf doesn't have a couple of tweaks that have landed in master ( https://github.com/crypto101/book ). Any plans to generate a slightly updated version ? PS: Thanks for your work ! Watched your talk and it was a nice quick primer. Glad you turned it into a book with more detail.
Sure, I should get around to that :-) Really I'd like to make a docker image or similarly repeatable environment that can do builds -- right now it's way too tied to my own environment. Also: I'm not sure org-mode -> TeX was a great idea.
I use www.leanpub.com for this and love them. They make publishing trivial, give you all the freedom and only take a small cut.
Re: Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
#66How does this compare to Crypto 1 on Coursera?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, I should get around to that :-) Really I'd like to make a docker image or similarly repeatable environment that can do builds -- right now it's way too tied to my own environment. Also: I'm not sure org-mode -> TeX was a great idea.
I use www.leanpub.com for this and love them. They make publishing trivial, give you all the freedom and only take a small cut.
I looked at them before and they couldn’t do the illustration generation I needed, but maybe with some preprocessing on my side and some on theirs :)
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what "complete" would entail :) For example: would a description of Noise be in scope? I think so but I'm not sure. People come up with new cool stuff that's useful to median developers on the regular (say, NMR) that feels like it ought to be added/updated. So I think it's forever a WIP and that's OK since I'm not really printing the book?
would a description of Noise be in scope? Yessss! Utterly selfishly: things like 'Noise Protocol Matrix' or 'Nonce misuse resistance 101' are actually closer to your target than XOR diagrams that people can already find on wikipedia.
I don’t know if you picked those judiciously or if I did but those are two blog posts I did actually write :)
Re: Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
(I'm the author.) Because it's not a priority for me and I never got the org -> epub generation flow working correctly. In particular, the book has a lot of illustrations, and getting illustrations right across a ton of ebook readers is quite complicated. To wit: they all support different formats and to get it more or less compatible you have to guess what the approx DPI is for most of those devices and then rasteri…
I see. > what the approx DPI is for most of those devices and then rasterize the vector imagery As far as I know you can use SVG illustrations in EPUB. Alternatively you probably could rasterize to a redundant resolution and rely on the viewer app to downscale the pictures to fit the page width.
You can, but at least a few years ago most cheap readers would horribly mess that up (usually not render it at all). And those that didn’t were typically nice enough that they could just render the PDF correctly ;)
Re: Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
#70Oh interesting. I recently got "Applied Cryptography" in one of the nostarchpress sales. I expected it to be turbo technical and way outside my league but popped it open on a whim one day. So far it's incredibly accessible, does anyone have thoughts on that versus this course? Worth taking the course after I finish Applied cryptography?
Applied Cryptography is terrible. https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cry... No Starch's "Serious Cryptography", the JP Aumasson book, is strong.
No, Applied Cryptography isn’t “terrible”, but treat it as a starting point. It will help you understand more advanced references (like the linked blog post).