![]() Each person he questions in the search for the ring is murdered by Hulohot, a mysterious assassin. However, Becker soon discovers that Tankado gave the ring away immediately before his death. The ring is suspected to have the code that unlocks Digital Fortress. When Tankado does indeed die in Seville, of what appears to be a heart attack, Strathmore asks David Becker (Susan's fiancé) to travel to Seville and recover a ring that Tankado was wearing when he died. Essentially holding the NSA hostage, the agency is determined to stop Digital Fortress from becoming a threat to national security. Tankado intends to auction the code's algorithm on his website and have his partner, "NDAKOTA", release it for free if he dies. She discovers that it was written by Ensei Tankado, a former NSA employee who became displeased with the NSA's intrusion into people's private lives. When the United States National Security Agency's code-breaking supercomputer ( TRANSLTR) encounters a new and complex code- Digital Fortress-that it cannot break, Commander Trevor Strathmore calls in Susan Fletcher, their head cryptographer, to crack it. ![]()
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