While not Van Eck Phreaking, being able to eavesdrop on what is being typed in a different room by monitoring the common ground wire of the electic outlet is still cool. The BBC’s article Snooping through the power socket outlines the attack.
Here Jason Griffey posted a graphic of the word frequency from Cryptonomicon. Certainly a pretty cool way to analyze this info in a more visual way.
An interview with Neal Stephenson was published on the Cryptonomicon website.
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Paul Crowley has documented a bias problem in the Solitaire (Pontifex) encryption algorithm used in the Cryptonomicon book by Enoch Root and Randy Waterhouse. [More]
The Guardian interviews Neal about Cryptonomicon and technology.
Locus Magazine interviewed Neal for their August 1999 edition, they have made an excerpt available at their website.
Bruce Schneier has published an in depth examination of the Solitaire encryption algorithm that was used in Cryptonomicon. The full analysis can be found on his personal website. [More]
G4TV has an interview with Neal up. You need Real Player to be able to watch the interview, we may put up a transcript later.
Salon.com interviews Neal to talk about Cryptonomicon and In the Beginning was the Command Line.
Steven Levy of Newsweek reviews Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. The Hacker Hemingway.