'Progress' may be a bit too strong, but not for lack of effort. I've been revisiting my project every few days when I have the time and trying to avoid burnout.

I have been eyeing a few cryptography books too, but I haven't had extraneous funds to purchase any sadly. Fortunately just 2 or 3 days ago I found a free download of the code examples from one of those books however. I haven't had much free time this week, but I did take maybe an hour or so tinkering with what I might learn from those examples. Hopefully over the weekend I'll have more time.

I'm also very glad you asked. It's a good motivator at least. Thanks @crypto.piotr!

To address your post script, I don't have telegram and you'd probably have better luck contacting me via Steem than E-mail. I did recently create a discord account, so if you're there that might work. I'd say that I'm more likely to check my E-mail even than discord though. All that said, I'm not averse to those other contact methods.

I would rather avoid posting my personal E-mail address or other such info permanently to an immutable public blockchain if I can help it, and I won't ask you to either. Instead, if it's not too much of a hassle, send an E-mail to [email protected] with any relevant contact info. It will still be visible to anyone who might look for a few hours, so don't send your safe combination or Bitcoin private keys ;)

Make sure to reply to this comment promptly after sending that E-mail. I'll be watching so I can catch it, and I'll reply to you from my own E-mail address.

It's not exactly exchanging one-time pads during a secret in person rendezvous, but it seems more private than posting that stuff on Steem to me.