Well, if you're naïve enough to think it would work, you COULD re-enact that bit in Cryptonomicon... And by that bit, I mean the bit about the sultanate, and it

Well, if you're naïve enough to think it would work, you COULD re-enact that bit in Cryptonomicon... And by that bit, I mean the bit about the sultanate, and its associated laws, obviously. Even as a dictator, you can't arrange for a networks expert to be in a prison cell adjacent to an immortal alchemist, trying to crack a WWII era code that will lead him to a secret cache of gold. :-D