Digital Fortress: A Thriller
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5 journalers for this copy...
This is not my normal reading taste so I really broke out of my mold by reading this (I'm such a wild and crazy woman! Heehee) This was a really good book! I didn't want to put it down. The pass key was easy to figure out, though.
Added to the Judge a book by its cover bookbox.
From the Judge a book by its cover bookbox.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Enjoyed the book as it had me thinking about who I wanted to be in NSA. What a thought!
This was intresting. Well I tend to look up things when I get interested. There is a lot of info on real stuff out there. I am not sure how much is true but this was on Wikipedia and I take that with a rock of salt knowing how much is misinformation on some caving info but here it is if you are curious as I was.
The book is loosely based around recent history of cryptography. In 1976 the Data Encryption Standard (DES) was approved with a 56-bit key rather than the 64-bit key originally proposed. It was widely reckoned that the National Security Agency had pushed through this reduction in security on the assumption that it could crack codes before anyone else.
In fact the DES was first publicly broken in 1997, 96 days after the first of the DES Challenges. In 1998, the same year as Digital Fortress was published, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (featured in the book) built a piece of hardware costing less than $250,000 called the EFF DES cracker which broke it in 56 hours.
The brute force search used by TRANSLTR takes twice as long for each extra bit added to the key (if this is done sensibly), so the reaction of the industry has understandably been to lengthen the key. The Advanced Encryption Standard established in 2001 uses 128, 192 or 256 bits, which take at least 1021 times as long to solve by this technique.
Unbreakable codes are not new to the industry. The one-time pad, invented in 1917 and used for the cold-war era Moscow-Washington hotline, was proved to be unconditionally secure by Claude Shannon in 1949 when properly implemented. However it is inconvenient to use in practice.
Then there is the info from the author-
Product Description
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.
This was intresting. Well I tend to look up things when I get interested. There is a lot of info on real stuff out there. I am not sure how much is true but this was on Wikipedia and I take that with a rock of salt knowing how much is misinformation on some caving info but here it is if you are curious as I was.
The book is loosely based around recent history of cryptography. In 1976 the Data Encryption Standard (DES) was approved with a 56-bit key rather than the 64-bit key originally proposed. It was widely reckoned that the National Security Agency had pushed through this reduction in security on the assumption that it could crack codes before anyone else.
In fact the DES was first publicly broken in 1997, 96 days after the first of the DES Challenges. In 1998, the same year as Digital Fortress was published, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (featured in the book) built a piece of hardware costing less than $250,000 called the EFF DES cracker which broke it in 56 hours.
The brute force search used by TRANSLTR takes twice as long for each extra bit added to the key (if this is done sensibly), so the reaction of the industry has understandably been to lengthen the key. The Advanced Encryption Standard established in 2001 uses 128, 192 or 256 bits, which take at least 1021 times as long to solve by this technique.
Unbreakable codes are not new to the industry. The one-time pad, invented in 1917 and used for the cold-war era Moscow-Washington hotline, was proved to be unconditionally secure by Claude Shannon in 1949 when properly implemented. However it is inconvenient to use in practice.
Then there is the info from the author-
Product Description
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.
Another book that wanted in the bksfamly miscellaneous box. Hope it finds a new reader.
Thanks for alowing me to be on the box.
Thanks for alowing me to be on the box.
I gave Dan Brown a fair chance, and read a couple of his novels. They were awful and formulaic. You would have to pay me large quantities of money to read another one. :-p But my mom loves him! Tastes differ.
This book enjoyed a brief stop in San Jose, California before continuing its travels in the Miscellaneous Bookbox!
This book enjoyed a brief stop in San Jose, California before continuing its travels in the Miscellaneous Bookbox!
My husband and I are both wanting to read this book, so it will stay with us for a while.
I am relentlessly purging Mt TBR of books that I in reality won't read - many of them have been languishing on the shelf for YEARS (like this one). Time to set them free.
I was out bike riding with my son when we came across this book in the park.
I took it home but realized that I've already read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I need to find an interesting place to leave it for someone else now.
I took it home but realized that I've already read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I need to find an interesting place to leave it for someone else now.
Released 7 yrs ago (1/18/2017 UTC) at Red-Tailed Hawk Park in Aurora, Colorado USA
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