Digital Fortress

Yes, Digital Fortress is one of the books that I have read recently. It’s an interesting book, written by Dan Brown, the famous novel writer.

The story begins with introducing a smart young lady called Susan Fletcher.

Susan is senior leader in CRYPTO, the cryptography department, one of the departments in National Security Agency.

The agency was described to be a super power organization in the world.

National Security Agency has a super computer with billions of processors inside, they call it TRANSLTR.

By using TRANSLTR, National Security Agency may be able to sabotage the internet. They can control the traffic, decoding an encrypted data that has been suspected a threat to the country.

Previously, TRANSLTR can decrypt message within the count of seconds.

The encrypted message contains data being used by several people who were trying to harm the country. By decrypting the message the law enforcements can prevent their attempt to create a chaos.

One day, TRANSLTR work very hard trying to decrypt a code called Digital Fortress. TRANSLR has been working for hours, but still cannot decrypt the code.

Digital Fortress was created by a genius programmer named Ensei Tankado.

Ensei Tankado was one of the CRYPTO’s programmers. He quit the NSA because he felt that NSA and the cryptography division has taken the privacy of people by spying through every emails in the world.

By that reason Ensei Tankado creating a powerful script to confuse TRANSLTR, and he succeeded. Tankado claims that the script cannot be broken by anyone accept himself

Strathmore, the commander of CRYPTO is in panic, he browse through his mind, thinking of the cause if he failed to decode the script. He is starting to create some plans and strategies to decode the Digital Fortress.

What are the plans and what will he do?

Well, I believe that it would be a nice story if you read it from the beginning to the end, step by step.

By they way, here the link to Dan Brown's official website www.danbrown.com