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Hi! I'm the author. Happy to answer questions.

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 used to use org-mode exporting to reveal.js for doing slides. Unfortunately this turned out to be a bit of a pain to get everything set up, especially when collaborating with people who for some have failed to embrace the One True Religion^H Editor. So in the end I changed to using Markdown and pandoc to convert to reveal.js.

As a bonus, using pandoc to convert my org sources to markdown worked reasonably well.

Yep, I took exactly the same path. Still use org-reveal sometimes but pandoc is really great and anything-to-anything :)

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 :)

This looks fantastic! Thank you for putting this out. And thank you for posting this.

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?

Thank you for writing this book! I recently used this book to brush up on crypto fundamentals for some interviews and found it really valuable. I was even able to implement a padding oracle attack after only knowing it in theory for a very long time. I was also wondering if you had any plans to complete. Right now, there are 36 TODO's in the book. Not all of them need further explanation and can be left as an exercise but some of them might be useful to dig into. Regardless, it is still awesome!

I definitely want to work on it more but I think completion goals are going to be at a chapter level maybe -- there'll always be stuff to add :)

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 :)

Oh, picked quite intentionally from things you actually wrote, yes :)

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