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

By: Steven Levy

Published December 31st 2001 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 2001)

Category: Business

Pages: 368 pages

ISBN: 9780140244328

Description:
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen LevyÑthe author who made "hackers" a household wordÑcomes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"Ñnerds and visionaries turned freedom fightersÑteamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.