Hey! I'm David, a security engineer at the Blockchain team of Facebook, previously a security consultant for the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. This is my blog about cryptography and security and other related topics that I find interesting.

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The Real World Cryptography book is on sale posted July 2019

Hello there,

It look like my new book Real World Crypto, available on pre-access here, is the current best seller on Mannings.

best seller real world cryptography

What this means for you is that you can read the first chapters there for free (or purchase the book, you know :P) and tell me what you liked and didn't like.

What this mean for me is that I now have more pressure to finish the book.

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what happened to CAESAR competition? Which one should we use now?