Digital Fortress Book Review
Book review
Digital Fortress is a fairly well-written and entertaining novel. The main storyline is based upon a hush-hush operation within the NSA to obtain and or destroy the only existing copies of a pass-key that, if made public, could enable the use of an encryption program that would create coded messages that would be entirely unbreakable thereby rendering the NSA obsolete and allowing undecipherable communications between terrorist organizations and crime rings throughout the world. The storyline takes place mainly in two separate locations: the top two members of the encryption team trying to break the program and track down the pass-key from headquarters and in Spain where the search is on for any possible physical pass-key possessed by the recently deceased creator of the program.
This is a pretty fast-paced novel with lots of action on both fronts. As usual with a Dan Brown novel, things get a bit unbelievable at times, but that's part of what makes them fun. He has created an interesting cast of characters and circumstances that really keep the storyline moving along at his usual break-neck pace. I had fun reading Digital Fortress and would recommend it to fans of Mr. Browns other works and also to those who enjoy thrillers along the lines of James Patterson if you haven't yet read any of Dan Brown's other works. It’s really hard to pick up some paragraphs from the entire story but for me, the most attractive part in this book is the code at the end of the book. It says:
128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78
If you have the book, find each chapter and write down the first letter of the first sentence of the first paragraph, then you will get the code like this: wecgewhyaaiortnu Now, how you solve this weird code? Because this is another Caesar's Box type thingy, we need to rearrange them to get: w | e | c | g | e | w | h | y | a | a | i | o | r | t | n | u |
Now, read down the column from left to right, we will have the
Digital Fortress is a fairly well-written and entertaining novel. The main storyline is based upon a hush-hush operation within the NSA to obtain and or destroy the only existing copies of a pass-key that, if made public, could enable the use of an encryption program that would create coded messages that would be entirely unbreakable thereby rendering the NSA obsolete and allowing undecipherable communications between terrorist organizations and crime rings throughout the world. The storyline takes place mainly in two separate locations: the top two members of the encryption team trying to break the program and track down the pass-key from headquarters and in Spain where the search is on for any possible physical pass-key possessed by the recently deceased creator of the program.
This is a pretty fast-paced novel with lots of action on both fronts. As usual with a Dan Brown novel, things get a bit unbelievable at times, but that's part of what makes them fun. He has created an interesting cast of characters and circumstances that really keep the storyline moving along at his usual break-neck pace. I had fun reading Digital Fortress and would recommend it to fans of Mr. Browns other works and also to those who enjoy thrillers along the lines of James Patterson if you haven't yet read any of Dan Brown's other works. It’s really hard to pick up some paragraphs from the entire story but for me, the most attractive part in this book is the code at the end of the book. It says:
128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78
If you have the book, find each chapter and write down the first letter of the first sentence of the first paragraph, then you will get the code like this: wecgewhyaaiortnu Now, how you solve this weird code? Because this is another Caesar's Box type thingy, we need to rearrange them to get: w | e | c | g | e | w | h | y | a | a | i | o | r | t | n | u |
Now, read down the column from left to right, we will have the