Bob’s interweb party house

Someone at work heard of my interest in Cryptonomicon, and recommended that I check out Digital Fortress, a Dan Brown (I know…) novel (fiction of course) about the NSA, and an “unbreakable” code. It’s an interesting book so far, but it’s a bit frustrating to experience technical details that are incorrect or grossly misleading. I hate when writers do that. There’s so little good crypto fiction out there that what’s out there should be vetted by someone in the business prior to publication. Bits vs bytes, bad buzzwords, and even worse, terrible character names. I mean, come on, “Trevor Strathmore?”