Why I'm Writing a Book on Cryptography (2020)

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This is a post from 2020, the author actually released their book more recently: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography

I read this book, I enjoyed it and learned a lot. It isn't textbook quality, but I don't think it's aiming to be. I read it not to develop cryptographic protocols, but to be able to use existing ones more confidently.

It seems designed for the kind of person who isn't comfortable using something until they understand how it works under-the-hood, but doesn't actually need to do any under-the-hood work.

It assumes very little knowledge, and is light on math. Sometimes it's a little TOO light on math, and it left me confused because I was trying to understand a primitive more rigorously than the book could support.

Looks like you can read the book for free on that page if you scroll to the table of contents at the bottom.

It's only got a few sample paragraphs before it turns into random word-shaped characters.

haha yep! https://i.imgur.com/mtGggJq.png

I bought this book, I believe I pre-ordered it based on this post. I was in a position where I was vaguely familiar with some of the concepts from uni but had forgotten a lot of the details, and had never grasped the bigger picture. Well worth a read!

Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23743218

Great, great book on applied cryptography!

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