Digital Fortress

The United States’ National Security Agency is one of the best intelligence services in the world. It performs a huge number of diverse tasks. With the advent of digital technologies, its work has become much more complex, and then the NSA was helped by the project of a supercomputer, “Transtext,” capable of carrying out the decryption of electronic messages within a reasonable timeframe.
But then one day a lone computer genius announces the development—and imminent sale—of a new encryption system, “Digital Fortress,” a system that cannot be decrypted even with the help of “Transtext.” All of the NSA’s work ends up under threat…