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Author Stephenson, Neal.

Title Cryptonomicon [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] Neal Stephenson.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : PerfectBound, 2003.
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Summary An American computer hacker operating in Southeast Asia attempts to break a World War II cypher to find the location of a missing shipment of gold. The gold was stolen by the Japanese during the war. By the author of The Diamond Age.
Note Special features: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); TWO: "Mother Earth Motherboard" (Neal's landmark nonfiction account of, among other techno-feats, the laying of the longest telecommunications cable on earth); THREE: "Press Conference": Neal answers "Why write about crypto?" and other penetrating questions.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Fiction.
Data encryption (Computer science) -- Fiction.
Genre Adventure fiction.
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ISBN 9780061792571 (electronic bk.)
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