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Tetraktys
Ari Juels, 2009

ISBN10: n/a    ISBN13: 9780982283707


Cryptographer and classicist Ambrose Jerusalem is a UC Berkeley graduate student with a beautiful girlfriend and a comfortable future, until the National Security Agency recruits him to track a strange pattern of computer break-ins. Individually, they might not mean much--a State Department official discovers a peculiar series of incriminating appointments in her computer calendar dating back to 18th century France; a corrupt president of the International Monetary Fund is startled by an oracular voice from his computer charging him with crimes against divine numerology and God--but together, they provide disturbing evidence that someone has broken RSA encryption, the security lynchpin protecting the world's computer systems. Even more bizarre, a secret cult of latter-day followers of Greek mathematician/philosopher Pythagoras appears to be behind the attacks. But soon Ambrose discovers he is not only the hunter but the hunted, and the game is not simply code-breaking, but a deadly plan to alter the fate of the world.--From publisher description.