The first words which comes to my mind after reading this book---"A Best Seller". Truly really meant for geeks and novices to the world of computers.

Just completed reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress in sharp two days. An amazing story with real facts and figures. The story starts with briefing about NSA( National Security Agency) of United States how it functions and what it is meant for i.e.national security in the fields of documents of national concern and computer field.

The story is about, the zeal of NSA to read all the electronic data transfers i.e. e-mails,phone messages etc. In a try to become the world powerful resource holder it makes a device for decrytion of messages of e-mails, a true gigantic machine with 3 million processors called TRANSLTR. But the possesion of TRANSLTR is not disclosed to the general public.TRANSLTR was true marvel which was able to decrypt any encrypted messages with hours (the maximum 3 hrs). It was thought that there was no encrytion algorithm which TRANSLTR can't break.

An ex-employeee called Ensei Tankado sees the TRANSLTR as a public privacy infringement and thinks of giving a challenge to NSA and the director Mr.Strathmore. He builts a program and puts it on the internet as a encrytion key which can't be decrypted. And Tankando warns NSA that if they didn't disclose to the public that they can infringe their personal space by reading personal mails he will distribute this program to everyone on this planet and NSA's TRANSLTR will become rendered unusable as this program can't be decrypted by TRANSLTR.

Due to curiosity Mr.STRATHMORE, the director bypasses the firewall and put this code into TRANSLTR to decrypt.But the TRANSLTR couldn't break the code after long hours. So NSA calls their head crytographer Susan Fletcher to decrypt it and suddenly they find the program as a deadly virus which will expose the ULTRASENSITIVE DOCUMENTS of the United States to the world.But this virus can only be stopped with a pass-key which is only known to Mr.ENSEI TANKADO who is the builder of the program.In the maen time he is killed.

Will the ultrasensitive documents be exposed to the world? How SUsan Fletcher and NSA will stop the virus?

Read the book absolutely awesome and a master piece. I JUST LOVE READING DAN BROWN