[OWASP-GUIDE] Status of Guide

[Andrew van der Stock]

Hi there,

I've just about completed the draft of the next revision with the  
help of Raoul Endres who wrote the Privacy and Crypto chapters, and  
Denis Pilipchuk who has contributed the Web Services chapter. I've  
also re-included and updated some of the early stuff and re-written  
the logging and data validation chapters. They are both shorter and  
more useful. Despite that, the Guide is currently at the 73,800 word  
mark. I am hopeful that a good bit of editing will bring us closer to  
60,000 again by the time we finish, but it's still going to be a  
monster.

Adrian Wiesmann has been in contact with No Starch Press, and we're  
currently in the process of working with them for a November release  
of the Guide. I think that would be considered like Guide 2.1, so if  
you have any post-2.0 ideas, let's get them on the table now. If a  
chapter does not appear in 2.0 now, it is not going to appear.

We are on track for a BlackHat release, and I'm trying to close off  
all chapters this week, so we have essentially three weeks to review  
and edit the content. To make this effective, I need to carve the  
reviews into two chapter chunks - each reviewer will only be assigned  
two chapters. That way you can provide meaningful reviews in the time  
we have available.

If you'd like to be a reviewer, now is the time to say so. You must  
take on a chapter this week, and return it marked up by Wednesday  
next week (July 13) and the last chapter by July 20. I leave for  
Blackhat on July 26, so this is down to the wire.

thanks,
Andrew