Digital Fortress (1998) (edit title/settings)

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• Susan Fletcher: NSA's top cryptographer and David Becker's fiance.she is clever and successful and utterly beautiful
• David Becker: A university professor, foreign-language specialist, and Susan's fiancé. he is clever and sharp.
• Commander Trevor Strathmore: The NSA's deputy director of operations. He is Susan's boss.
• Ensei Tankado: A physically handicapped Japanese computer programmer who authored Digital Fortress. He previously worked for the NSA.
• North Dakota: Tankado's partner who he announced shall publish the pass-key to the public if any foul play is committed against him.
• Greg Hale: A handsome co-worker of Susan Fletcher. he is genius, he used to hit at susan
• Director Leland Fontaine: Director of the NSA. first black director.
• Tokugen Numataka: The Japanese owner of Numatech Corp. who makes a deal with North Dakota to obtain the pass-key to Digital Fortress.
• Phil Chartrukian: Sys-Sec technician.
• Jabba: NSA's senior Sys-Sec officer. He is the creator of Gauntlet which is an antivirus.
• Chad Brinkerhoff: Personal assistant to Director Fontaine.
• Midge Milken: The Director's internal security analyst. she has an accurate hunch about crises
• Hulohot: An assassin, who's out to get someone.
• Pierre Cloucharde: Add a description of this character.
• Señor Roldán: A Spanish employee at Escortes Belén.
• Hans Huber: An obese German tourist in Spain who is escorted by Rocío.
• Rocío Eva Granada: A prostitute present during Tankado's public death.
• Two-Tone: A punk who David encounters at Club Embrujo
• Megan
• Agent Coliander: Fontaine's agent in Spain.
• Agent Smith: Fontaine's agent in Spain.
• Soshi Kuta: Sys-Sec head techie and Jabba's right-hand assistant.

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• “It is said that in death, all things become clear, Ensei Tankado now knew it was true.”

• “There was no doubt in anyone's mind that Strathmore loved his country.He was known to his colleagues as a patriot and a visionary...a decent man in a world of lies.”

• “Every night the young Tankado stared down at the twisted fingers holding his daruma wish-doll and swore he'd have revenge - revenge against the country that had stolen his mother and shamed his father into abandoning him.”

• “He seemed to have an uncanny ability to see past the moral perplexities surrounding the NSA's difficult decisions and to act without remorse in the interest of the common good.”

• “An algorithm that resists brute force will never become obsolete.”

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• It came from the world’s first computer—the Mark 1—a room-size maze of electromechanical circuits built in 1944 in a lab at Harvard University. The computer developed a glitch one day, and no one was able to locate the cause. After hours of searching, a lab assistant finally spotted the problem. It seemed a moth had landed on one of the computer’s circuit boards and shorted it out. From that moment on, computer glitches were referred to as bugs.

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• The secret behind “without wax” was too sweet. Its origins were ancient. During the Renaissance, Spanish sculptors who made mistakes while carving expensive marble often patched their flaws with cera—“wax.” A statue that had no flaws and required no patching was hailed as a “sculpture sin cera” or a “sculpture without wax.”

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• Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

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• The phrase eventually came to mean anything honest or true. The English word “sincere” evolved from the Spanish sin cera—“without wax.” David’s secret code was no great mystery—he was simply signing his letters “Sincerely.”

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• “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” Susan looked puzzled. “It’s Latin,” Hale said. “From Satires of Juvenal. It means ‘Who will guard the guards?’”

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• Founded by President Truman at 12:01 A.M. on November 4, 1952, the NSA had been the most clandestine intelligence agency in the world for almost fifty years.

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• “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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• This was not America—no safety signs, no handrails, no insurance disclaimers. This was Spain. If you were stupid enough to fall, it was your own damn fault, regardless of who built the stairs.

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• Biggleman’s Safe was a hypothetical cryptography scenario in which a safe builder wrote blueprints for an unbreakable safe. He wanted to keep the blueprints a secret, so he built the safe and locked the blueprints inside.

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• the NSA lived by its motto: Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

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• Amerika (Florida)
• Spanje
• Japan
• National Security Agency (NSA),Fort Meade, Maryland
• Seville,Spain
• Tokyo,Japan

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• NASA: Add a description of this organization.
• National Security Agency (NSA): The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government, administered as part of the United States Department of Defense. Created on November 4, 1952 by President Harry S. Truman, it is responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, which involves cryptanalysis. It is also responsible for protecting U.S. government communications and information systems from similar agencies elsewhere, which involves cryptography. As of 2008, NSA has been directed to help monitor U.S. federal agency computer networks to protect them against attacks.<1> The NSA is directed by a lieutenant general or vice admiral. NSA is a key component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. The Central Security Service is a co-located agency created to coordinate intelligence activities and co-operation between NSA and U.S. military cryptanalysis agencies. NSA's work is limited to communications intelligence; it does not perform field or human intelligence activities. By law, NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications, although there have been numerous reports that the agency does not always abide by these laws.

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Hacken, Computers en NASA: Describe this theme.
• patriotism
• technology

Errata edit see section history

Brown states that the "Nazi's encryption beast" weighed twelve tons. It actually weighed about 110 pounds.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and followed by Of Mice and Men.

Preceded by Wuthering Heights, and followed by The Host.

Preceded by Deception Point, and followed by Little Women.

Preceded by Deception Point, and followed by The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dan Brown (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3552.R685434 D54 1998
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Brown, Dan
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Political
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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