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Open source security projects have a hard time getting and keeping contributors because the expertise for this particular kind of work is difficult to develop.

Publishing a book like this sends a strong public signal of deep expertise.

I have not found tptacek to be overly rude or negative when offering advice to journeyman cryptologists. But a journeyperson should not necessarily be publicizing their how-to guides yet.



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