(Before I go further, I should warn you that there are huge spoilers below. Miraculously, the end result is so ridiculous that it’s almost tolerable. I’m hoping so, anyway, because the alternative - that Dan Brown spent time learning about cryptography and this is what came out - is too terrible to contemplate. Needless to say, Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress is not one of those books. They’ve made us all a little bit smarter. If you’re a Dan Brown fan it is definitely a must read.Once in a while I run into a work of dramatic fiction that takes such a powerful, realistic look at modern cryptography - and its implications for our national security - that we should all be grateful to the author. I enjoyed this book, it’s not a Da Vinci Code, but it’s good, even after a second reading. I will be honest on rereading this book, the storyline towards the end seemed more implausible, just too much luck involved, but that’s as far as a spoiler as I will go. Unlike the Da Vinci Code this story plays out in two locations, Spain and the U.S., both equally contributing. The book doesn’t give you a sense of history as the Da Vinci Code does, this is codes in the modern era and with expensive technology. If you enjoyed that book, movie or both, you most likely will enjoy this.
David Becker is really another version of Robert Langdon from the Da Vinci Code. Okay back to this being a Dan Brown book. If the ability to unencrypt, aka crack data became impossible then the criminals would be given a huge advantage. These days encryption is ever present and to break this complex data requires serious computer power and clever programming. For hundreds of years codes have been important, to securely send a message and if intercepted, prove difficult to break. David is sent to Spain to recover the key to the code being auctioned and you know you are on a roller coaster ride within a handful of pages. Chuck in a NSA employee Susan Fletcher, her finance David Becker (not NSA), Susan’s boss and an assassin. Unfortunately it looks like an ex-NSA employee has created an unbreakable algorithm and has decided to auction it off, well until he mysteriously dies in Spain. agency, the NSA wants to keep breaking them. The book at it’s core is about codes, unbreakable codes and the U.S. Did the second reading change my impression? My second time around reading this book, which the first time around I enjoyed. This is a book review of Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.
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