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I'm Writing a Book on Security

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I sort of wish he'd write a new edition of Applied Cryptography. I learned so much from that book in the 90s, but so much has changed since then.

I completely agree! How could we encourage him to update the book?

Schneier isn't involved in cryptography enough today to be able to write the kind of crypto book people would expect. For example he knows very little about ECC, and stream ciphers aren't really on his radar either. Also he said on his blog that he'll probably never write another crypto book.

What do you wish to know? Whatever it is, there are already high quality sources of information out there right now. If you say what you're interested in people can point out good guides.

If he's not the person, somebody else should do an update.

Daniel J. Bernstein would probably be a good candidate. Then again it looks like he has written a couple books already (disclaimer: no referral).

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%...

DJB's homepage: http://cr.yp.to/djb.html

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/hashbreaker?lang=en

Verified Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ToxxF5oAAAAJ&hl=en

Example Presentation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4cKwBROno

Do you know any resource that provides hypercondense explanations of workflows that use crypto?

While not a direct successor, there's this: https://www.schneier.com/books/cryptography_engineering/

This problem is quite similar to the GAI problem: the more automation we have, the greater damage an attack can have. The question is whether there is any way to limit the biggest attacks that can happen? I don't think, but I wish there would be a solution.

What is the GAI problem?

gai = general artificial intelligence

the gai problem = superhuman ai negatively affecting humanity

It's AGI, not GAI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intellige...

"AGI Problem" is bs, humanity is more of a threat to AI than AI will ever be to man.

I think there is a whole new category of books on modern computing that is relatively empty and those with a knack for explaining important but challenging concepts should really go after the projects. Multi-core programming, security, and many other topics need good Dummy 101-style books for non-dummy professional developers who may not have had to do a lot of it before.

Is Schneier still a practioner enough to do this? After all his VC-funded companies and being on boards, etc. he seems more like a guy at 10K feet than some researcher who's deep in the weeds and knows the nuances.

You missed the main war for power.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/21278...

That webpage won't load. did the ai war already start?

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