Type and topic

Books and learning on security and privacy

Every link here is classified as books and learning on security and privacy.

Hall of Fame: 7
Candidates: 19
Median span: 5.8 yrs
First seen: 2008

Strongest Hall records

7 items

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

www.crypto101.io 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2025-07-06

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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

www.righto.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2021-02-15

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The cryptopals crypto challenges

cryptopals.com 16 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2023-06-20

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A practical guide to securing macOS

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2020-08-22

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This page is anonymous

voidnull.sdf.org 5 submissions · 4 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2019-06-19

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Set up an email server in two hours

sealedabstract.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2016-03-14

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Guide to Web Authentication

webauthn.guide 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2022-06-22

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

www.crypto101.io 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2025-07-06

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The cryptopals crypto challenges

cryptopals.com 16 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2023-06-20

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Guide to Web Authentication

webauthn.guide 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2022-06-22

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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

www.righto.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2021-02-15

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A practical guide to securing macOS

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2020-08-22

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Candidates

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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

www.moserware.com 24 submissions · 16 people · 14.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

toc.cryptobook.us 10 submissions · 8 people · 7.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Security Engineering – The Book

www.cl.cam.ac.uk 13 submissions · 13 people · 12.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-04-05

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Optimizing HTTPS performance

istlsfastyet.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-01-31

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001)

cacr.uwaterloo.ca 8 submissions · 7 people · 12.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH

github.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 10.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-01-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992)

www.blurofinsanity.com 7 submissions · 2 people · 8.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-03-20

Needs:3 submitters

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A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS

hacks.mozilla.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output

benhoyt.com 3 submissions · 2 people · 4.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-10

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

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Secure Secure Shell

stribika.github.io 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-08-04

Needs:5 submissions

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How to Live Without Google

spreadprivacy.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers

littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-02-12

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Car Hacker's Handbook (2016)

opengarages.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-02-07

Needs:5 submissions

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Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced

tls.ulfheim.net 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-08-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]

www.ifca.ai 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-10-06

Needs:5 submissions

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Reverse engineering guide for beginners: Methodology and tools

0x00sec.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-12-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes

www.righto.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-07-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 active years

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Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi

smallstep.com 3 submissions · 2 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 submitters

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Primer on elliptic curve cryptography

arstechnica.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-02-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 active years

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