[eponeponepon]

This is about to eat my weekend, I think! :)

Quite seriously, this is exactly what the tech world needs - personally, I know that in terms of understanding of crypto I'm streets ahead of the average Joe, but orders of magnitude behind people who actually know the field. I'm certain I'm far from alone in that set, but the way the world's going means that we with the generalised technical know-how have a moral impetus to bring the rest of the world up to speed with the whys and wherefores.

[Gruselbauer]

Logged in to post pretty much exactly this.

Since the author is reading this: thanks. Read the first few lines and am already hooked. I have been looking for a long time, but most texts on crypto are either way below my level of understanding or miles above. You're a godsend!

[tscs37]

I'm not sure if it still applies, but there is a saying:

"There are maybe 5 people in the world that may call themselves cryptographers"

[CodeMage]

And they're called Alice, Bob, Chris, Dave and Eve.

[tscs37]

What about Mallory?

[siberianbear]

Is that you, Mr. Hintjens?

[Ar-Curunir]

Carol is the preferred C party :P

[milansm]

> I'm streets ahead of the average Joe

Has anyone seen "streets ahead" being used by anyone else besides Pierce Hawtorn and the OP? I mean, is it widely used now? (I'm not native speaker, obviously)

[lethargic_meat]

I'm using it as much as possible just to push it into language.

[tptacek]

I read it as a Pierce Hawthorneism.

[eponeponepon]

It's been common parlance in English for centuries.

[marknadal]

Same here, however I think it is better for us to talk about what we do know more, so that it increases the discussion and thus awareness and knowledge sharing (as well as getting corrected when wrong).

So we went out on a limb and made these 1 minute layman video explainers on cryptography: http://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html , I hope they are useful. Anything incorrect?