Crypto (book)

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 the "cypherpunks". The book details the creation of Data Encryption Standard (DES), RSA and the Clipper chip.^[1]

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

First US edition
Author	Steven Levy
Language	English
Genre	Factual
Publisher	Viking Press (US) Allen Lane (UK)
Publication date	2001
ISBN	0-14-024432-8
OCLC	48846639

See also

• Books on cryptography
• Crypto wars