The Joy of Cryptography
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The Joy of Cryptography
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#2Mike was my cryptography professor and an advisor on an independent cryptography course I took a an undergraduate at OSU. We used an early copy of this book and it was wonderful. This is a great, free, resource for anybody interested in crypto maths.
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#3This is the coolest way I have seen someone write their email and avoid email harvesting bots:
For inquiries related to this book, use x@joyofcryptography.com, where x is the author's first name.
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Nearly everyone with a high school education can “crack” that puzzle and figure out his email and yet most bots will fail.
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#4This is exactly the kind of book on cryptography I need.
The book uses math & pseudocode to describe algorithms instead of using popular languages like Python or C/C++.
This makes it language agnostic. Code can be very opinionated in my opinion.
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#5> All the sensible textbook titles were already taken. Actual joy not guaranteed.
Like a lot of people (I imagine) I made it through a CS bachelors program not really ‘getting’ the discrete math combinatorics part. Crypto is an area where those concepts really really matter. It’s great to see this resource available!
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#6This is exactly the kind of book on cryptography I need. The book uses math & pseudocode to describe algorithms instead of using popular languages like Python or C/C++. This makes it language agnostic. Code can be very opinionated in my opinion.
I don't know mathematic notation well at all, but can easily reason about most code.
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#7> All the sensible textbook titles were already taken. Actual joy not guaranteed. Like a lot of people (I imagine) I made it through a CS bachelors program not really ‘getting’ the discrete math combinatorics part. Crypto is an area where those concepts really really matter. It’s great to see this resource available!
I learned so much math when I looked into RLWE based lattice crypto. Some times it just takes a distinct use case to have something click
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#8This is the coolest way I have seen someone write their email and avoid email harvesting bots: For inquiries related to this book, use x@joyofcryptography.com, where x is the author's first name. - Nearly everyone with a high school education can “crack” that puzzle and figure out his email and yet most bots will fail.
RFC 5321 requires compliant domains to have both a "postmaster" and an "abuse" email address (e.g. postmaster@joyofcryptography.com). This technique will not stop a flood of spam emails to x@joyofcryptography.com, which will end up in the postmaster inbox.
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#9Looks like an excellent book. Would the author prefer the solutions to the exercises not be public? Or would it be welcome for someone to publish them? If the latter, I would quite happily work on it.
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#10This is exactly the kind of book on cryptography I need. The book uses math & pseudocode to describe algorithms instead of using popular languages like Python or C/C++. This makes it language agnostic. Code can be very opinionated in my opinion.
I got that same impression from “Applied Cryptography” (Schneier). But Bruce isn’t exactly giving it away! :)