Geopolitics

"Crypto" by Steven Levy is a great read especially with recent events of Pavel Durov being jailed. Know your history, especially my friends in the land of the "free".

"Crypto" by Steven Levy is a great read especially with recent events of Pavel Durov being jailed. Know your history, especially my friends in the land of the "free".

https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digital/dp/0140244328

Tricks with polynomials and Riemann-Roch spaces. Breaking into the platonic realm to pillage forbidden abstractions.

Somethin somethin…those who don't know are…somethin somethin

Honestly surprised this book isn’t discussed much. It’s a great read about an extremely important moment in the history of cryptography and civil liberties. Plus extremely relevant to today. We are repeating history.

agreed it was a great book! Was fascinating hearing the history of public key cryptography and the reception to it

I just finished this last month. I strongly co-sign this recommendation. 

The extensive background history of NSA secrecy gives additional context to the “clipper chip” drama that I was previously missing