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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. The latest edition is from 2013-08-21.

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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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CryptoPartyHandbook for Kindle

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We are thrilled to announce that the Cryptoparty Handbook is now Kindle-friendly. Please download .mobi .cover.jpg and metadata.opf and place all three files into your Calibre Library.

Old Versions

snapshot version 2013-07-10 is available from the above locations. Simply replace 2013-08-21 with 2013-07-10 to get the previous version.

snapshot version 1.1 is downloadable as PDF and ePub.

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Other Resources

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