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A company I used to work for was partly comprised of hackers, and one of the books they always raved about was called Cryptonomicon. I know that it involves the
by danielvaughn 3y ago
A company I used to work for was partly comprised of hackers, and one of the books they always raved about was called Cryptonomicon. I know that it involves the nazis and encoded secrets, though I never read it (still on my to-read list). I'd recommend checking it out if that kind of thing sounds interesting to you.
- andyjohnson0 3y agoI read it back in the day. I can't remember much of the plot, but i do remember that it seemed about twice as long as it needed to be. Which I find ro be typical of Stephenson's fiction. Plenty of people seem to like it though.
- buildbot 3y agoLess so than his later books in my opinion. It’s a lot of great plot throughout with good explanations of the math concepts it refers to. I may be biased, After reading wheel of time, nothing seems too long anymore!
- sleepybrett 3y agoHe does like regressions into historical causes and effect chains... hell the whole system of the world trilogy is almost nothing BUT that (and contains some character/family crossovers with cryptonomicon)
- wkat4242 3y agoI liked it but I thought it was overly dramatic in a "survival of the fittest" way and indeed way too long. But I'm not a fan of the guy anyway. It is a decent book to read once though.
- buildbot 3y agoCryptonomicon is almost exactly this premise :) It’s an amazing book, one that any aspiring hacker should read!