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

AUTHOR: Steven Levy

PUBLISHED: 2001

Don't say you weren't warned many years ago! In the earlier days of the Internet, there weren't too many who were focused on privacy in the age of information. Levy addresses the emergence at the time of public key cryptography and digital signatures. The book also looks at the role of the federal government in the then emerging field.

In a review on the Palo Alto Networks website, canon committee member Jon Oltsik writes: " IT technology evolves quickly, so it would be easy to dismiss 'Crypto' as ancient history; but, while the technology developments described in this book are over 20 years old, the fundamental debate between surveillance/national security and data privacy remain as topical today as it was" when and before the book was written.