Add the_book

Signed-off-by: innocentzero <[email protected]>

.gitignore

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+public

config.toml

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ header_nav = [
   { url = "https://exploiitm.github.io/", name_en = "home"  }, 
   { url = "/blog", name_en = "blog"},
   { url = "/blog/writeups", name_en = "writeups"},
-  { url = "/blog/about" ,name_en = "about"}
+  { url = "/blog/about" ,name_en = "about"},
+  { url = "/blog/contacts" ,name_en = "contact"}
 ]
 
 # Optional footer license text. It will only show, when using footer_content_license.

content/_index.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Official blog of Cybersecurity Club, IIT Madras.
 
 ## Posts
 
+- [BoB](./posts/the_book)
 - [Summer School](./posts/summer_school)
 - [View all posts](./posts)
 

content/posts/summer_school.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title = "Summer School 2024"
 date = 2024-07-01
 +++
 
-In the summer school conducted by the Cybersecuirty club, titled **"The Art of Exploitation"** , we provided a 9 session course on binary exploitation. 
+In the summer school conducted by the Cybersecurity club, titled **"The Art of Exploitation"** , we provided a 9 session course on binary exploitation. 
 This course coverd everythin from the basics of C to advanced topics including ret2libc, ASLR and more.
 
 You can find the [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfeU8pxDhVE&list=PLhHkiL2SJ7Xf9Meg6fj-yLJt1DJ0bwSAZ&pp=iAQB) of the recordings.

content/posts/the_book.md

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
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+title = "The Book Of Binaries"
+date = 2024-07-02
+authors = ["InnocentZero"]
++++
+
+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.

templates/blog-page.html

@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
-{% extends "base.html" %}
-
-{% block content %}
+{% extends "base.html" %} {% block content %}
 <div><a href="..">..</a>/<span class="accent-data">{{ page.slug }}</span></div>
-<time datetime="{{ page.date }}">Published on: <span class="accent-data">{{ page.date }}</span></time>
+<time datetime="{{ page.date }}"
+  >Published on: <span class="accent-data">{{ page.date }}</span></time
+>
 {% if config.extra.author and config.extra.display_author == true %}
-<address rel="author">By <span class="accent-data">{{config.extra.author}}</span></address>
+<address rel="author">
+  By
+  <span class="accent-data"
+    >{% if page.authors %} {% for author in page.authors %} {{ author }}, {%
+    endfor %}and {% endif %}{{ config.extra.author }}
+  </span>
+</address>
 {% endif %}
 <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
 
@@ -33,15 +39,11 @@ <h2>Table of contents</h2>
   </li>
   {% endfor %}
 </ul>
-{% endif %}
-
-{{ page.content | safe }}
+{% endif %} {{ page.content | safe }}
 
 <p class="tags-data">
-  {% if page.taxonomies.tags %}
-  {% for tag in page.taxonomies.tags %}
+  {% if page.taxonomies.tags %} {% for tag in page.taxonomies.tags %}
   <a href="/blog/tags/{{ tag | slugify }}">&#47;{{ tag }}&#47;</a>
-  {% endfor %}
-  {% endif %}
+  {% endfor %} {% endif %}
 </p>
 {% endblock content %}