Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age - Couverture souple

Levy, Steven

 
9780140244328: Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

Synopsis

Cryptography, the use of codes and ciphers, is of huge importance today: codes are essential to the secure use of the internet, mobile phones and all kinds of electronic transactions (credit cards etc). CRYPTO traces the devlopment of the mathematical science of cryptography, and describes the conflicts that have developed between those who want to keep codes weak - basically government agencies, who want the option of peeking in - and those hackers outside government who want strong code available to all, to protect privacy. Afterall, if privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Senior editor at NEWSWEEK, author of three previous Penguins: INSANELY GREAT, ARTIFICIAL LIFE and, one of the very few computer-age classics, HACKERS.

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