A Cypherpunk's Library

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men

Paul Rosenberg

2003 · 452 pages

A novel. A loose network of programmers, traders, and ordinary people build a free society in the unmapped space of the early internet: anonymous, encrypted, voluntary, beyond the reach of states. Through their story Rosenberg dramatizes the cypherpunk wager: that cryptography and conscience can carve out room for human freedom, and asks what it costs and what it's worth.