Book - Crypto - Brown, Dan

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Author: Brown, Dan

Brand: OSCAR BESTSELLER

Number of pages: 427

Details: Washington. Thirty-eight-year-old Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematical mind and head of the cryptology division of the NSA (National Security Agency), is urgently summoned to Commander Strathmore's office. Someone has created a program capable of "fooling" the most sophisticated computer espionage tool in the world, a supercomputer that can decode any encrypted text at astonishing speed. Very few know the existence of this machine, designed to counter new security threats in the Internet age and capable of checking anyone's e-mail. The NSA itself, created to protect the communications of the American government and intercept those of foreign powers, operates in semi-clandestinity, outside of public control. Susan is not surprised when she learns that "Digital Fortress", as the program has been called, is the result of the research of a computer genius: the Japanese Ensei Tankado, handicapped from birth due to the effects of the atomic disaster in Hiroshima, who after being called to the United States to work for the NSA, he slammed the door on his bosses when he realized that the supercomputer was in danger of turning into a new Big Brother. His intentions are noble, but his decision to boycott the work of the NSA, putting the program online and allowing anyone to download it, risks creating anarchy and ensuring freedom of action for spies and criminals.

Release date: 2007-07-03