This book is intended as an introduction to cryptography for programmers
of any skill level. It’s a continuation of a talk of the same
name, which was given by the author at PyCon 2013.
The structure of this book is very similar: it starts with very simple
primitives, and gradually introduces new ones, demonstrating why
they’re necessary. Eventually, all of this is put together into complete,
practical cryptosystems, such as TLS, GPG and OTR.
The goal of this book is not to make anyone a cryptographer or a
security researcher. The goal of this book is to understand how complete