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Cryptography -- the use of secret codes -- was until recently the province of puzzle geeks and government spies. But a band of outsiders triggered a revolution in this once-cloistered field. In this first full-scale account of the great Code War, Levy outlines the development of a "people's" cryptography and its head-on collision with the U.S. government. "Crypto" is about privacy in the information age and about the nerds and visionaries who, over 20 years ago, predicted that the Internet's greatest virtue -- free access to information -- was also its most perilous drawback: a possible end to privacy. There is also the first behind-the-scenes account of what the National Security Agency (NSA) really had in mind when it created the controversial "Clipper Chip."
| ISBN-13 | 9780756777883 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0756777887 |
| List Price | $14.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 356 pages |
| Publisher | Diane Pub Co |
| Published On | 2004-06-01 |
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