Steven Levy writes: Here is a link to some sites for a book tour: http://www.penguinputnam.com/stevenlevy/tour.htm Not on there for some reason is a reading/discussion at Microsoft's Mountain View (CA) campus on Jan 12 at 3:30 p.m. that's open to the public. Another public event is Jan. 16 at the University of Washington bookstore in Seattle, at 7 pm. ----- Sorry I failed to mention previously the full title of Steve's new book (first posted, I thnk, by Commando Hettinga): "CRYPTO: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government - Saving Privacy in the Digital Age." And more: Endorsements for Crypto by Neal Stephenson, Kevin Kelly and David Kahn: "You've got to hear this story of how renegade geniuses and unlikely heroes liberated crypto from under the noses of spooks, and installed the code in the dream servers of dot-coms. This book persuaded me that despite the dangers of strong crypto (it gives a chance for evil to hide) providing it to the public was a Very Good Thing. Crypto not only makes e-commerce possible, it is also the first political movement in the digital era. Read about the future here." --Kevin Kelly, author of New Rules for the New Economy and Editor-at-Large, Wired Magazine "At last! The human story of the breakthroughs that gave us e-commerce and privacy on the Internet. Steve Levy has written cryptography's Soul of a New Machine.'" --David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers "Civilian crypto hardly existed three decades ago. Now we can't get cash from an ATM or buy something on the Net without it. To tell the story coherently is a service, and to tell it entertainingly is a favor to anyone with a stake in crypto--which nowadays means all of us. CRYPTO is a book that needed to be written and Steven Levy has written it. " -- Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon Author Bio Steven Levy is also the author of Hackers and Insanely Great: The Life & Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. He is Newsweek's chief technology writer, a former writer for Macworld, and a frequent contributor to Wired.