Crypto
by Steven Levy
How public-key cryptography escaped the government: Diffie, Hellman, RSA, PGP, the Clipper chip wars. The pre-Bitcoin history of privacy tech.
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you want the origins of modern encryption as a story.
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Skip it if…
you want cryptocurrency; this predates it.
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Three things you will actually use
- Privacy was fought for.
- Math beats policy.
- Rebels built the infrastructure.
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Read the chapters on Diffie and Hellman.
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