Overview
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.
Author | Dan Brown |
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Country | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Mystery Techno-thriller |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press Transworld (United Kingdom) |
Publication date | 1998 |
Media type | Print (hardback, paperback), audiobook |
ISBN | 0-312-18087-X (first edition hardcover) |
OCLC | 55045760 |
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
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When the United States National Security Agency's code-breaking supercomputer TRANSLTR encounters a revolutionary new code, Digital Fortress, that it cannot break, Commander Trevor Strathmore calls in head cryptographer Susan Fletcher to crack it. She discovers that it was written by Ensei Tankado, a former NSA employee who became displeased with the NSA's intrusion into people's private lives. If the NSA doesn't reveal TRANSLTR to the public, Tankado intends to auction the code's algorithm on his website and have his partner, 'North Dakota', release it for free if he dies, essentially holding the NSA hostage. The agency is determined to stop Digital Fortress from becoming a threat to national security.
When Tankado does indeed die in Seville, of what appears to be a heart attack, Strathmore asks Susan's fiancé David Becker to travel to Seville and recover a ring that Tankado was wearing when he died. The ring is suspected to have the code that unlocks Digital Fortress. However, Becker soon discovers that Tankado gave the ring away just before his death. Each person he questions in the search for the ring is murdered by Hulohot, a mysterious deaf assassin.
Meanwhile, telephone calls between North Dakota and Tokugen Numataka (chairman of the Japanese computer company Numatech) reveal that North Dakota hired Hulohot to kill Tankado in order to gain access to the passcode on his ring and speed up the release of the algorithm. At the NSA, Fletcher's investigation leads her to believe that Greg Hale, a fellow NSA employee, is North Dakota. Phil Chartrukian, an NSA technician who is unaware of the Digital Fortress code breaking failure and believes Digital Fortress to be a virus, conducts his own investigation into whether Strathmore allowed Digital Fortress to bypass Gauntlet (NSA's virus/worm filter). However, Chartrukian is murdered after being pushed off the catwalk in the sub-levels of TRANSLTR by an unknown assailant. Since Hale and Strathmore were both in the sub-levels, Fletcher assumes that Hale is the killer; however, Hale claims that he witnessed Strathmore killing Chartrukian. Chartrukian's fall also damages TRANSLTR's cooling system.
Hale holds Fletcher and Strathmore hostage to prevent himself from being arrested for the murder. It is then that Hale explains that the e-mail he supposedly received from Tankado was actually in his inbox because he was snooping on Strathmore, who was also watching Tankado's e-mail account. After the encounter, Hale's name is cleared when Fletcher discovers through a tracer that North Dakota and Ensei Tankado are actually the same person, as 'NDAKOTA' is an anagram of 'Tankado.' Strathmore exposes himself when he fatally shoots Hale and arranges it to appear as a suicide. Susan later discovers through Strathmore's pager that he is the one who hired Hulohot. Becker later kills Hulohot in a violent confrontation
Chapters told from Strathmore's perspective reveal his motives. By hiring Hulohot to kill Tankado, having Becker recover his ring and at the same time arranging for Hulohot to kill him, he would facilitate a romantic relationship with Fletcher, regaining his lost honor and enable him to unlock Digital Fortress. By making phone calls to Numataka posing as North Dakota, he thought he could partner with Numatech to make a Digital Fortress chip equipped with his own backdoor Trojan so that the NSA could spy on every computer equipped with these chips. However, Strathmore was unaware that Digital Fortress is actually a computer worm that, once unlocked would 'eat away' at the NSA databank's security and allow 'any third-grader with a modem' to look at government secrets. When TRANSLTR overheats, Strathmore commits suicide by standing next to the machine as it explodes. The worm eventually gets into the database, but soon after David Becker figures out the password (3, the difference between the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, Isotope 235, and the Nagasaki nuclear bomb, isotope 238, a reference to the nuclear bombs that killed Tankado's mother and left him crippled), and is able to terminate the worm before hackers can get any significant data. The NSA allows Becker to return to the United States, reuniting him with Fletcher. In the epilogue, it is revealed that Numataka is Ensei Tankado's father. Numataka left Tankado the day he was born since Tankado was a deformed child.
Characters[edit]
- Susan Fletcher – The NSA's Head Cryptographer, and the story's lead character
- David Becker – A Professor of Modern Languages and the fiancé of Susan Fletcher
- Ensei Tankado – The author of Digital Fortress and a disgruntled former NSA employee.
- Commander Trevor Strathmore – NSA Deputy Director of Operations
- Phil Chartrukian – Sys-Sec Technician
- Greg Hale – NSA Cryptographer
- Leland Fontaine – Director of NSA
- Hulohot – an assassin hired by Strathmore to locate the Passkey
- Midge Milken – Fontaine's internal security analyst
- Chad Brinkerhoff – Fontaine's personal assistant
- 'Jabba' – NSA's senior System Security Officer
- Soshi Kuta – Jabba's head technician and assistant
- Tokugen Numataka – Japanese Executive attempting to purchase Digital Fortress
- Peter McCuffin – Worker at the NSA, Part of the Crypto Team
Inaccuracies and criticism[edit]
The book was criticized by GCN for portraying facts about the NSA incorrectly and for misunderstanding the technology in the book, especially for the time when it was published.[1]
In 2005, the town hall of the Spanish city of Seville invited Dan Brown to visit the city, in order to dispel the inaccuracies about Seville that Brown represented within the book.[2]
Although Uranium-235 was used in the bomb on Hiroshima, the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki used Plutonium-239 (created from U-238). Uranium-238 is non-fissionable.
Julius Caesar's cypher was not as simple as the one described in the novel, based on square numbers. In 'The Code Book' by Simon Singh it is described as a transposition cypher which was undecypherable until centuries later.
The story behind the meaning of 'sincere' is based on false etymology:https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=sincere
It is also untrue that in Spain (or in any other catholic country) communion takes place at the beginning of Mass. Communion takes places very near the end.
Television adaptation[edit]
Imagine Entertainment announced in 2014 that it is set to produce a television series based on Digital Fortress, to be written by Josh Goldin and Rachel Abramowitz.[3]
Translations[edit]
Digital Fortress has been widely translated:
- Estonian as Digitaalne Kindlus
- Azerbaijani as 'Rəqəmsal Qala' ISBN978-9952-26-426-5
- French as Forteresse Digitale, ISBN978-2-253-12707-9
- Arabic as الحصن الرقمي, ISBN9953299129, 2005, Arab Scientific Publishers
- Dutch as Het Juvenalis Dilemma, ISBN9789024553020
- Korean as 디지털 포트리스
- German as Diabolus, ISBN978-3785721940
- Bosnian as Digitalna tvrđava
- Portuguese as Fortaleza Digital, ISBN972-25-1469-5
- Indonesian as Benteng Digital, ISBN9791600910
- Turkish as Dijital Kale, ISBN978-975-21-1165-3
- Danish as Tankados Kode
- Hebrew as שם הצופן: מבצר דיגיטלי
- Slovak as Digitálna pevnosť, ISBN80-7145-9917
- Bulgarian as Цифрова крепост, ISBN978-954-584-0173
- Hungarian as Digitális erőd, ISBN978-963-689-3460
- Vietnamese as Pháo đài số, ISBN978-604-50-2946-6
- Greek as ΨΗΦΙΑΚΟ ΟΧΥΡΟ, ISBN960-14-1101-1
- Serbian as Дигитална тврђава
- Persian (Farsi) as قلعهی دیجیتالی
- Macedonian as Дигитална тврдина
- Russian as Цифровая крепость
- Spanish as La Fortaleza Digital, ISBN8489367019
- Romanian as Fortăreața digitală
- Czech as Digitální pevnost
- Ukrainian as Цифрова фортеця
- Finnish as Murtamaton linnake
- Swedish as Gåtornas Palats
- Norwegian as Den Digitale Festning
- Italian as Crypto, ISBN978-880-45-7191-9
- Polish as Cyfrowa twierdza, ISBN978-83-7885-752-5
- Albanian as Diabolus
- Traditional Chinese as 數位密碼
- Simplified Chinese as 数字城堡
- Slovene as Digitalna trdnjava
- Lithuanian as Skaitmeninė tvirtovė
- Japanese as パズル・パレス
- Uzbek as ‘’ Raqamli Qal’a’’
- Croatian as Digitalna tvrđava
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Breen II, John (August 2, 2011). 'Why can't novels get technology right?'. GCN. United States: Public Sector Media Group. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- ^Nash, Elizabeth (August 27, 2005). 'Dan Brown: Seville smells and is corrupt. City: You come here and say that'. United Kingdom: The Independent. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- ^Andreeva, Nellie (September 11, 2014). 'ABC Nabs Adaptation Of Dan Brown's 'Digital Fortress' From Imagine & 20th TV'. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
External links[edit]
- ‹See Tfd›(in Spanish)Criticism in the Spanish-language Epoca of the book's description of locations in Seville
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Fortress&oldid=902202603'
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Since the Chinese translation of The Da Vinci Code was released in China in 2004, the “Dan Brown Craze” has swept across the country. All of Brown’s novels have subsequently been translated into Chinese and sold millions of copies. No living foreign writer has generated so much media coverage and scholarship in China within such a short period of time; not even Toni Morrison or J.K. Rowling. Brown’s rendering of dichotomies, such as science and religion, humanity and divinity, good and evil, and liberty and privacy, resonates well with his Chinese readers because they feel that these issues are no longer irrelevant to them. They see an urgent need for a revision, if not an entire redefinition, of their existing beliefs and values. This book examines the plot, characterization, themes, setting, codes, knowledge, institutions, and techniques in his novels, and delivers a careful textual analysis, a selective dissemination of relevant information on different subjects, and a perceptive comparison between Brown and other Chinese and Western writers. As such, it shows how his thrillers have been appreciated and studied in China, and what kinds of discoveries, challenges, controversies, and insights have surfaced in the Chinese appreciation of Brown’s novels. Furthermore, the book explores why the “Dan Brown Craze” has lasted this long and exerted a broad and far-reaching impact upon the reading, writing, studying, translating, publishing, and marketing of fiction in China.
International Writers Artists Yearbook
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Genre :English periodicals
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Read Em Their Writes
Author :Gary Warren NiebuhrISBN :1591583039
Genre :Language Arts & Disciplines
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Presents a guide for mystery book clubs, discussing how to organize groups, get participants, choose titles, prepare for meetings, and administer discussions.
Education World
Author :Books Like Digital Fortress 2
ISBN :UOM:39015066253835
Genre :Education
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Dan Brown Books In Order
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