Splitting chapter 5 into more chapters

[pet3r-pan]

I am opening up a discussion to split chapter 5 into seperate chapters. Chapter 6 looks to explore the technicalities of the cryptography behind Monero. Currently the chapter content structure looks like:

• Introduction
• Monero Randon Number Generation
• Hashing
• Base 58 Encoding scheme
• Ecliptic curve cryptography (without any introduction of public/private key crypto)
• Address generation
• Monero Blockchain Design (blocks, transactions, identifiers)
• Private transactions (ring sigs and one time stealth addresses)

I would like to suggest that chapter 5 should be split into 2 different chapters

These chapters would be known as the "Technical aspects of Monero"

• Monero's blockchain design (blockchain, hashes, PoW, public key crypto, addresses)
• Monero's private transactions and how the work (cryptography behind one time addresses, ring sigs etc.) -> this differs from the earlier chapter 3 as it will go into the maths and cryptography.

Happy to take charge of restructuring the information, explaining the concepts (not just describing) and making it all digestible :)

Cheers

[serhack]

Hi pet3r-pan!

Your idea is fantastic, however I thought about diving the entire book in two section.

First section (for newbie) that includes

• the first chapter ("Introduction to cryptocurrency and privacy")
• the second chapter ("Getting started")
• the third chapter ("how Monero works")
• the fourth chapter ("Monero mining process")
• the fifth chapter ("Monero core and community")

Then there will be the second section (for technical people, developer or simply users that want to know more about Monero) that includes

• A little introduction to Maths and Cryptography basics (will it become a chapter? I don't know)
• the sixth chapter ("Monero's Blockchain Design")
• the seventh chapter ("Monero's private transactions")
• the eighth chapter ("Kovri and Monero P2P Network") not sure about this
• the ninth chapter ("Integrating Monero")

I am not sure about where we can put the chapter about Kovri and Monero P2P Network

And ... the tenth chapter ("Miscellaneous") that includes GUI and CLI tutorial

[pet3r-pan]

Nice! I like the two part book structure even better :)

Lets work towards it. Would appreciate feedback from other contributors @xmrhaelan

[serhack]

Proposed structure for second edition (which is affirming again my previous comment ):

• 5th chapter: Introduction to Maths and Cryptography Basics (including examples), Hashing functions - I might need some help from MRL guys
• 6th chapter: Monero Blockchain design
• 7th chapter: Monero Private technologies
• 8th chapter: Monero P2P Network (which will include topics such as "broadcasting transactions");
• 9th chapter: Monero wallets (keys generation, calculation of balance, steps to create a transactions..)