[Spooks] The Codebreakers

Martin Potter [email protected]
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:06:46 -0500


Ralf wrote:
> The front cover says: "There are stories in this book to cause red
> faces in all the major capitals of the world" The Observer.
> 

A book by Steven Levy, "Crypto" (how the code rebels beat the 
government - saving privacy in the digital age), has a good 
description of how much Kahn's book upset NSA and the government.

The rest of the book is about birth and development of public key 
encryption.  A good read!

... Martin    VE3OAT