Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (2001)

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age is a book about cryptography written by Steven Levy, published in 2001. Levy details the emergence of public key cryptography, digital signatures and the struggle between the National Security Agency and cypherpunks. The book details the creation of Data Encryption Standard (DES), RSA and the Clipper chip.

Subjects

Whitfield Diffie

Martin Hellman

David Kahn

Ron Rivest

Adi Shamir

Leonard Adleman

Phil Zimmermann

Tom Jennings

James Bamford

Dorothy Denning

Tim May

Eric Hughes

David Chaum

John Gilmore

Len Sassaman

Adam Back

Hal Finney

Nick Szabo

Paul Le Roux

Wei Dai

William F. Friedman

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