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The old Cryptopals challenges ( http://cryptopals.com/ ) seem to cover the same material in a pedagogically very different way - they don't feed you the information as this book does, but give you a practical task which can be easily done with e.g. reading the specification of an algorithm from wikipedia, but figuring out the implementation of the attack yourself gives a much better understanding than simply reading…
Hi! I'm the author. Also a big fan of Cryptopals; I was one of the reviewers for Set 8, and working with some of the authors. It's interesting to hear that point of view; because I thought C101 took the same approach as Cryptopals in the sense that it focused on teaching crypto by breaking it. When I say "learn by doing", I'm referring to stuff like walking through a bit-flipping attack just like cryptopals does. I r…
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Hi! I'm the author. You're mistaken about [0] and [1]. I'd like to address your specific point about being a guide rather than a course. I agree that a crypto zoo would be a guide and not a course; although I disagree that either the book or the talk are a zoo. It's possible that that hasn't come through effectively enough. I could understand why someone might think that from looking at the table of contents for exam…
Congrats on your book, I'm looking forward to reading it. What was Rackspace's role or interest in the project?
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Agreed. The one time I actually want to sign up to a mailing list, and there's no way of doing it.
Hi! I'm the author. I should really remove that pre-release stuff. There's no useful point for "done", and it already includes most of the stuff I wanted to talk about.
Although the video is marked 2015, the overlay at the start shows it's from PyCon 2013.
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So-called Quantum Cryptography is largely snake oil. The most important things you need to know about it is that: * In order to do QC you need an authenticated channel first. QC proponents hardly mention that or try to obscure it, but it basically means you can't have QC unless you already have some other secure cryptography. * QC has severe practical limits. It needs a point to point connection capable of sending ph…
Is there a working and practical implementation somewhere? I was under the impression it wasn't practical yet.
It's probably insecure (these things get broken regularly), not practical for any real use case and total obvious nonsense to buy it, but I think there are some banks who thought they have some money leftover that they'd sink in such devices.
I downloaded this about a year ago and loved it. Incredibly informative. Is this an updated version?
Its free to read online but its also very reasonably priced. Its written by an engineer over at Cloudflare.