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riontelAsk a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the box that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.
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Date: 2006-03-19 11:10 am (UTC)As can be seen from history, a result of truly Edisonian proportions was achieved by asking him to make something that will massacre Americans.
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Date: 2006-03-20 08:20 pm (UTC)The title is a reference to the fictional Necronomicon, a reference of demonology translated as the "Book of Dead Names" and detailed in the works of the writer H. P. Lovecraft.
When Stephenson came up with his title, he was not aware of the word's origin, and was simply seeking a Greek-sounding word that also had 'crypto' in it. Cryptonomicon translates to 'Book of Hidden Names'. The Cryptonomicon referred to in the novel— described as a "cryptographer's bible" — is a fictional book summarizing mankind's knowledge of cryptography and cryptanalysis.
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