After reading Steve Levy's "Crypto," two points he covers still intrigue: the true origin of public key encryption and the true origin of cypherpunks. Intriguing, to this reader at least, is the link between the two in fostering public use of crypto -- and whether there was covert involvement of TLAs in both efforts. Levy does not examine this possibility, but the affairs and persons he explores do offer tantalizing hope for there being more than has been made part of the public record. Levy writes a swell account of the public, bright side of crypto liberation, and why there's not more about the dark side is a mystery, for there's not a really bad character, or agency, in the whole tome. To be sure, Levy notes that the awful aspects of crypto is either classified, NDA or criminal, thus not fit for angelic e-commerce and PGPeople's liberation.