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*Cryptonomicon*
Neil Stephenson (1999)
If you want a dramatic tour of 1940-1999 cryptography, internet, WWII, Philippine history, and pre-BTC crypto-libertarianism, this is amazing. Few unapologetically-technical books of this type hold up this well 27 years later.
How had I not read this before?
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