I am the author of The Joy of Cryptography, which is finally in print today. Ask me anything.

My textbook *The Joy of Cryptography* is released in print today! Some of you may be familiar with early PDF drafts of the book. The new edition is a complete re-write: the coverage of existing material is greatly improved, and a lot of new material has been added ([table of contents](https://joyofcryptography.com/joctoc.pdf)).

The plan is for the book to be completely open access, but the online version will not be ready until July. Currently only the first 3 chapters are online at [joyofcryptograhy.com](https://joyofcryptograhy.com). But they should give you a taste of the master plan: a responsive HTML-based book with interactive visualizations for proofs of security.

I'm happy to celebrate the book's release by answering any questions you have about the textbook, cryptography, especially theoretical / provable security aspects, academic research, grad school, MPC, etc.

About me: I am a professor in the School of EECS at Oregon State University. My research area is in cryptography, and primarily in secure multi-party computation (MPC).