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Pretty Good Privacy

Brian Rotman

  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  • In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
  • Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

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Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.

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