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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?

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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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