Chris’s Reviews > Cryptonomicon > Status Update

PAST HALF WAY and there's still no clearly identifiable narrative and it's still a hell of a lot of fun

where we get a crash course in cryptographic keys, and the difficulty of breaking one beyond some bit size "barring the invention of otherworldly technologies such as quantum computers"

...which some folks down the corridor are attempting to do.

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