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To properly understand technology like this, I need to sit down and crunch the numbers, program it up, and learn from that.

I can't find any technical, low-level documentation on the IOTA protocol.

One example is Dom's gitbook were some details are explained, but most is just references to functions of the API/Library - Not how a seed is used to create private keys and addresses, changing those trytes into numbers and then into the cryptographical world.

Does anyone have any links or PDFs, or do I have to take a deep dive into the source code?

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    at the current state of the system, deep diving into the source code of iota.lib.js and iri is indeed the most reliable source of information.
    – mihi ♦
    Commented Dec 14, 2017 at 21:56
  • Yep, also discovered this. I would like to see technical specs. I would like to implement a flash channel client in Scala. At the moment the only option is to read the Javascript Code. Takes some time... and trying things out. Maybe we can start a github project for it. Discovering the protocol and writing specs for it.
    – Citrullin
    Commented Dec 21, 2017 at 11:57
  • One issue: Maybe they change the protocol dramatically. That means: You have to change also your implementation and specs. You see: At the moment the tangle is just Beta.
    – Citrullin
    Commented Dec 21, 2017 at 11:58

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Currently, the most reliable documentation out there would be the official IOTA documentation. However this may not be in enough detail, so the only thing to do, as suggested in the comments, would be to look through the source code of the various libraries and packages

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