There's also a page at http://www.well.com/user/neal/cypherFAQ.html
that is aimed at the cypherpunk list. Most interesting part is that
evidently Bruce Schneier designed a special cypher for use in the novel,
based on a deck of playing cards. (?)
As I write this it's still up, but given the /. effect, who knows?
It's evidently Neal's personal page on the Well, so spamming it's location
out to the world in general might get it pulled down pretty quick.
Also, when I was at the URL below, it featured some kind of 'quiz' that
you had to do to get to the meat of the site. Adding main.html to the
URL below jumps past it, or at least used to.
>
> At 06:07 PM 4/1/99 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >
> >Neal Stephenson's novel "Cryptonomicon" appears to have its own web
> >site now.
> >
> >http://www.cryptonomicon.com/
>
> It was a fairly nice page when it was up, but currently it's
> down after becoming a victim of the dreaded slashdot effect (because
> Neal included an interesting piece about his view of operating
> systems).
>
> Of course, said effect also threw his as yet unpublished novel
> up into Amazon's top 50 sellers (as of last night) so he's probably
> not too upset.
>
> In any case, after reading the descriptions of the novel I'm
> really looking forward to seeing Neal's take on crypto.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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