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+title = "The Book Of Binaries"
+date = 2024-07-02
+authors = ["InnocentZero"]
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+Hi everyone, InnocentZero here. I've taken up on a very ambitious and extensive 
+"project" if you choose to call it that. I'll be writing a book about binaries.
+That's it. Executables. But of all sorts.
+
+The main focus will be from a security and optimization point of view. It plans 
+to touch a vast range of topics ranging from compilers and linkers to operating
+systems, embedded firmware and hardware design. Once again, all from the point
+of view of mainly security.
+
+This is a massive project and would require many months if not complete years to
+be in a remotely publishable stage. As of now, one of the chapters that serves
+as a basic introdcution to C programming is complete.
+
+
+## Why do it?
+
+Simply because we love sharing knowledge. On a personal basis, I want this book
+to be a complete and total encyclopedic and academic text to everything about 
+executables. Let's see how we reach there and if there's a change of plans in 
+between. 
+
+When I first entered this domain, the hardest part was to get a proper source
+of information and knowledge in this field in particular. Web is easy, forensics 
+is mostly about dealing with the data given at hand and seeing if you can 
+extract something from it and cryptography is just mathematics. But to 
+understand rev and pwn, you need a very solid base that most people often do not 
+have. And many a times, CTF write-ups just tell you _how_ to exploit a challenge
+without telling you the exact specifics of it. The _why_. That's what this book
+is for. 
+
+While there are many other notable attempts at this, the most important one 
+being "The Art of Exploitation", I feel they are somewhat dry in nature and not
+engaging enough for the audience. On the other hand, this book is a direct 
+inspiration from the "The Art of Computer Programming", as I definitely found
+it to be a very engaging text.
+
+## The How, typst and more
+
+The book is available for free [here](https://codeberg.org/innocent_zero/the_book).
+It utilizes the new typst tool for generation of the book. I chose this because it's
+far easier and faster to compose books in typst than in Latex. It is licensed 
+under Creative Commons, so with proper attribution nobody should have issues
+utilizing or promoting the book.