Digital Fortress

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"Thoughts raced through Susan's mind. Ensei Tankado had created a program that could write unbreakable codes! She was trying to grasp the concept, but with difficulty. 'Digital Fortress,' Strathmore said, 'that's what he called it. It's the most powerful anti-intelligence weapon.'" "If this software were to reach the market, even elementary school students with modems could send codes that the NSA couldn't crack. Our intelligence would be lost." But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of the digital fortress. She was still struggling to understand its existence. She had spent her life analyzing codes and firmly denied the existence of an absolute code. Every code was solvable—Bergowski's principle! She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God. "If this code were to spread," she whispered, "crypto-analysis would become a dead science." Strathmore nodded. "That's the least of our problems." Could we bribe Tankado? I know he hates us, but could we offer him some in millions of dollars? Convince him not to distribute it? Strathmore added, "Some millions. Do you know what that's worth? Governments all over the world would offer a lot of dollars. Can you imagine us telling the president that we're still eavesdropping on the Iraqis but can't read what they're saying anymore?" Did we object? It's not just about the NSA; it concerns the entire intelligence community. This facility provides support to everyone: the FBI, the CIA, the DEA. They'll all be frustrated. It will become impossible to track drug traffickers' shipments, large corporations will move money without any paperwork, and the IRS will be left in the dark..." The narrative seems to begin to unravel at this predicament: "discovering the digital fortress," which Susan Fletcher, the head cryptanalyst at the world's most secretive club, the National Security Agency (NSA), and a highly intelligent woman, is attempting to breach. The events become intertwined and their pace escalates relentlessly, captivating the reader. The novelist weaves into these events of codebreaking and deciphering, a romantic story between Susan Fletcher and David Baker, the only man Susan has ever loved. He is the youngest professor at George Taden University and a brilliant foreign language specialist who, like Susan, has entered the same game: cryptanalysis. The novel may be pure fiction, but what is in its folds convinces the reader that the writer tried to convey something specific to American intelligence and its work within the framework of his novel, which is similar in its imaginations that are very close to reality, to those imaginations that filled the world of his wonderful novel “The Da Vinci Code.” It should be noted that, just as the latter witnessed overwhelming popularity, so too did Dan Brown’s novel “Digital Fortress,” which has been translated into more than 50 languages, and more than 3 million copies of it have been printed so far. Publisher: "When the NSA's seemingly invincible codebreaking machine encountered a mysterious code it couldn't crack, the agency called on its chief codebreaker, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she discovered sent shockwaves through the corridors of power. The NSA was held hostage—not by guns or bombs, but by a highly complex code capable of crippling US intelligence if unleashed. Caught in a whirlwind of secrecy and lies, Fletcher fought to save the agency to which she owed her allegiance. But betrayed on all sides, she found herself fighting not only for her country but for her own life, and ultimately, for the life of the man she loved." "Digital Fortress" is a clever, fast-paced, and compelling novel that blurs the line between right and wrong, showcasing Dan Brown's masterful storytelling skills as he vividly portrays the gray area between personal freedom and national security.