If you didn’t know, I’ve been writing a book (called Real-World Cryptography) for almost 2 years now on applied cryptography, why would I do this? I answered this in a post here.

I’ve finished writing all 15 chapters which are split into a first part on primitives, the ingredients of cryptography, and a second part on protocols, the recipes of cryptography:

1. Introduction
2. Hash functions
3. Message authentication codes
4. Authenticated encryption
5. Key exchanges
6. Asymmetric encryption and hybrid encryption
7. Signatures and zero-knowledge proofs
8. Randomness and secrets
9. Secure transport
10. End-to-end encryption
11. User authentication
12. Crypto as in cryptocurrency?
13. Hardware cryptography
14. Post-quantum cryptography
15. Next-generation cryptography and final words

Is this it? Unfortunately it is not, I now will start the long revision process. I am collecting feedback on various chapters, so if you want to help me write the best book possible please contact me with a chapter in mind :)