Funny that we disagree on Cryptonomicon, I am heavily involved in implementing cryptographic algorithms, I have two DRM patents from Microsoft (given their state, that should not be read as a boast). Yet the only thing I remember from the book is using the CapLock and NumLock lights to send Morse code.
Edit: I will NEVER put a penny into cryptocurrencies.
Funny that we disagree on Cryptonomicon, I am heavily involved in implementing cryptographic algorithms, I have two DRM patents from Microsoft (given their state, that should not be read as a boast). Yet the only thing I remember from the book is using the CapLock and NumLock lights to send Morse code.
Edit: I will NEVER put a penny into cryptocurrencies.
Yea, cryptocurrency is a ponzi scheme, by definition, so I'm not sinking money into that scam. My favourite bits of Cryptonomicon were the WWII Sgt Shaftoe chapters (tho the "modern day" trip into the jungle is epic and SO well written, esp the letter about driving behind the pig truck). Given, I probably don't have the technical knowledge of cryptography that you do, but I thought it was a good primer for it, esp the bits about Adam Turing and Bletchley Park.
Funny that we disagree on Cryptonomicon, I am heavily involved in implementing cryptographic algorithms, I have two DRM patents from Microsoft (given their state, that should not be read as a boast). Yet the only thing I remember from the book is using the CapLock and NumLock lights to send Morse code.
Edit: I will NEVER put a penny into cryptocurrencies.
Yea, cryptocurrency is a ponzi scheme, by definition, so I'm not sinking money into that scam. My favourite bits of Cryptonomicon were the WWII Sgt Shaftoe chapters (tho the "modern day" trip into the jungle is epic and SO well written, esp the letter about driving behind the pig truck). Given, I probably don't have the technical knowledge of cryptography that you do, but I thought it was a good primer for it, esp the bits about Adam Turing and Bletchley Park.