数字城堡(Digital Fortress)简介：
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S. intelligence.
This book deals with issues of civil rights, the privacy of citizens from their government and the right to privacy on the internet. There are many discussions in the book concerning whether or not it is ethical for a government organization to freely access any information stored electronically by its citizens.《数字城堡》主要内容是：世界上最隐秘的情报部门——美国国家安全局（NSA）斥巨资建造了一台可以破解一切密码的机器——万能解密机。这台超级电脑帮助NSA挫败了无数恐怖分子的阴谋，但这台电脑也能截获普通人的电子邮件。这个世界已没有隐私和秘密可言！NSA前程序设计师远诚友加针锋相对地推出了“数字城堡”，他声称这是具有不可破解的密码的加密软件，并以此要挟NSA，要求他们向世人宣布万能解密机的存在。不料，远诚友加在西班牙意外死亡，而刻有口令的戒指却神秘失踪。
NSA首席密码破解专家苏珊·弗莱切与男友——语言学家戴维·贝克猝不及防地被卷入了这一事件中。两人各自在扑朔迷离的情境中经历了险象环生的一幕一幕……