“
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author
Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters are World War II-era
Allied codebreakers and
tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the
Government Code and Cypher School at
Bletchley Park (UK), and disillusioned
Axis military and intelligence figures. The second narrative is set in the late 1990s, with characters that are (in part) descendants of those of the earlier time period, who employ cryptologic, telecom, and computer technology to build an underground
data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using
electronic money and (later)
digital gold currency, with a long-term objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing
genocide-target populations on defensive warfare. ...”
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