This is the notes I took while reading the Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. It's a huge book and made many references to things that I either didn't know anything about or next to nothing. In anycase I jotted down the phrase, or whatever, and what there was in context about it.



4096 bit encryption.

Societas Eruditorium -- Ignoti Et Quasi Occulti
: "hidden and unkown" more or less.

Enoch Root -- character's name

Tagalog --- Filipino languange

Gung-Ho -- Mao's army's battle cry- marines adopt it after they tangle w/ mao's army. Means "all together" -- they went "Asiatic" (this was a derogatory term at the time).

Rui Faleiro ---- magellan's cosmographer - didn't set sail with Magellan; stayed in Seville.

Godel's Proof --- ???

Spider Web acts as an extension of the spider's nervous system. It feels the vibration of caught insects and some spiders can determine the type of insect caught based on the vibration.
phototropic:grows towards light::infotropic:grows toward information/data

Qwghlmian - not Celts, according to themselves, but did invent the best features of the celtic culture. Moore family name is Anglicized from gthe Qwghlmiran name Mnyhrrgh.

ASDIC ---- British acronym for US term "sonar."

Modus Vivendi ----???

General William Tecumseh Sherman

56
in code (?) refers to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (the Tiger of Malaya)

Digibomber --- thinly veiled reference to Unabomber --- Andrew Loeb 's cabin searched (he's a primative survivalist/grad student) --- Loeb turns to 'net when his cabin is raided. He becomes involved w/ Eutropians and introduces his well supported idea of hive consciousness.

Eutropians --- into cryogenics --- hard core individualists & libertarians. belived that computer + Homo Sapiens = New Species.

Kelptocrats -- ref to offshore data havens where copy right/intellectual property laws are not enforced.

Shark (German Tritron) the British nic.name for the 4 wheel version of the Enigma.

Plan Torus - name of (fictional?) withdraw operation from Itay by commando group. Torus tic-tac-toe is tic-tac-toe where the sides touch the other sides (like Joust or a flattened map).

Gedankenexperiment -- a hypothetical (situation?)

Van Eck Phreaking - "they can read the internal state of your computer by listening to the faint radio emissions coming out of the chips."

Evler totient function --- cryptomath---???

Anteaus --- neither god nor man---???

Baudot Code -- used by teletypers --- 32 character alphabet. Numbers represented by five digit binary number. Germans used encrypted version of Baudot Code at one time between high-level command posts --- called Fish by Brits and their Colosus machine was built to decypher it.

Paul Revere's lantern signaling was a sort of binary code-
1 if by land, 2 if by sea.

---:Web addresses/servers referenced:---
tombston.epiphyte.com
laundry.org


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