Novus Ordo Seclorum

It all started when I saw ORDO on the nick of a friend on msn. I remembered the book, Criptonomicon by Neal Stephenson that I read just last year. it was a really fun read, with lots of mystery and real history from WW2.

I ended up finding a very interesting page called ‘What’s up with Enoch Root?‘. If you’ve read the book, go read that page, you’ll probably find it just as interesting… and made me really want to read Quicksilver, a prequel to Cryptonomicon, in which Enoch Root appears to be a charater. And after reading Neal’s entry in Wikipedia, I definetly feel interested in reading all his books, since I definetly enjoyed his style of writing and the topics he touches in his novels.

For those of you, like me, that read the spanish version, this page has some interesting info from the peron who did the transltion of the book.

My googling also produced this page with a detailed essay on the Solitaire encryption system used in the book, as well as versions of a program for it in different languages, that I know some of you (or one of you) might be interested in checking out.