The CryptoParty Handbook tries to provide a comprehensive guide to the various topics that might come up while investigating the realms of computer and internet security and is designed to be a practical guide during CryptoParties.

Please note that the CryptoParty Handbook is currently not updated!

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CryptoPartyHandbook for Kindle

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Get the Sourcecode

You may help to improve the Handbook, it's a group effort! The Handbook is written in Markdown. For collaboration github is used. Although primarily used by programmers, github provides a very comfortable editor for markdown. Just register, clone the handbook repository, edit it and file a pull request (it is really not hard, just try it out).

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Recent changes

The latest edition is from 2013-08-21 and includes all updates to github until that date.

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