false <![CDATA[Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg 984428 6 If the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it. Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening <I>Hackers</I>, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in <I>Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government</I>. From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama and intellectual challenge everywhere he looks. Although he writes, "Behind every great cryptographer, it seems, there is a driving pathology," his respect for the mathematicians and programmers who spearheaded public key encryption as the solution to Information Age privacy invasion shines throughout. Even the governmental bad guys are presented more as hapless control fetishists who lack the prescience to see the inevitability of strong encryption as more than a conspiracy of evil.<p> Each cryptological advance that was made outside the confines of the NSA's Fort Meade complex was met with increasing legislative and judicial resistance. Levy's storytelling acumen tugs the reader along through mathematical and legal hassles that would stop most narratives in their tracks--his words make even the depressingly silly Clipper chip fiasco vibrant. Hardcore privacy nerds will value <I>Crypto</I> as a review of 30 years of wrangling; those readers with less familiarity with the subject will find it a terrific and well-documented launching pad for further research. From notables like Phil Zimmerman to obscure but important figures like James Ellis, <I>Crypto</I> dishes the dirt on folks who know how to keep a secret. <I>--Rob Lightner</I> 55370 2001 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age total:126|5:26|4:54|3:38|2:8|1:0| 126 476 220 25 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 5 0 false Sat Nov 29 05:52:50 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 15 15:54:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 3 0 false Sun Aug 09 16:59:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 13:47:37 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 16:59:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1190309 0670859508 9780670859504 12 1 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181761770m/1190309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1190309.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 3 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Aug 20 14:15:09 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 14:16:48 -0700 2009 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Aug 03 12:49:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:51:18 -0700 2009 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 3 0 false Mon Sep 14 17:34:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 18:00:12 -0700 2009 1 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 0 0 false Wed Sep 23 19:51:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 19:53:33 -0700 2009 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 3 0 false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 09:52:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 05:57:36 -0700 2009
I never was much of a math geek, but now I want to find a copy of Bruce Schneier's book Applied Cryptography and learn how all this stuff actual...more...]]> 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 3 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jul 10 18:44:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 06:38:42 -0700 2009 1 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Thu Dec 10 21:09:27 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 21:10:28 -0800 2009 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Mon Aug 17 14:00:11 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 17:53:39 -0700 2009 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 10:57:21 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 11:02:20 -0700 2008
The author has done a very good job - its history but has written much better way than the typical historian's write the book about any history. Being a journalists has helped him to talk about the right things...more...]]> 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Wed Jul 15 02:07:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 02:08:36 -0700 2009 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 10:36:34 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 11:06:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 56831 0713993464 9780713993462 4 2 Crypto 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170460117m/56831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56831.Crypto 3 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 27 16:21:21 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 10 17:35:56 -0700 2007
Levy is a magazine writer, and it reads like that. I mean that as a compliment; some of this is pretty dense material, but Levy makes it seem sort of breezy.

Not terribly te...more...]]> 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 3 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 05 22:17:08 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 22:17:23 -0800 2007 more...]]> 984428 0140244328 9780140244328 106 22 Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180008770m/984428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government_Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age 4 0 false Sun May 25 21:27:51 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 21:29:46 -0700 2008 56831 0713993464 9780713993462 4 2 Crypto 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170460117m/56831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56831.Crypto 5 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Jul 17 14:09:45 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 14:11:36 -0700 2007
This is a must read book for people interested in Cryptography.
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