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.
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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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