Digital Fortress

Paperback, 528 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 2016 by Corgi Books.

ISBN:
978-0-552-17355-1
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OCLC Number:
946160891

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3 stars (1 review)

Susan Fletcher has been summoned to the one of the world’s most secretive organisations, the National Security Agency. Their unbeatable code-breaking machine has been hacked.

Susan is supposed to be able to help. But instead she uncovers the truth. They are being held hostage.

Can she protect her country from the most deadly of enemies? --back cover

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3 stars

This is Dan Brown's first fictional work. The story involves the ultra secret NSA and its cryptographic department. The NSA has built a 3 million processor computer named TRANSLTR which can crack any ciphertext by means of brute force. But, it is one day challenged with a ciphertext that it can't crack. Also, the creator of the new encryption algorithm named Digital Fortress threatens to go public with this algo if NSA doesn't reveal to the world that it has been snooping on the world's information using TRANSLTR. But, there is more to it. There is a chance of USA's biggest secrets being revealed to the world.

Compared to The Da Vinci Code, Digital Fortress is quite amateurish, especially the former half. The main protagonist is a female cryptographer who is in love and has a fabulous figure to boot. The book rests on cryptography, so the author tries to …

Subjects

  • Intelligence officers
  • Cryptographers
  • Computer security
  • Fiction

Places

  • United States