Characters
- Susan Fletcher — The NSA's Head Cryptographer, and the story's lead character
- David Becker — A Professor of Modern Languages and the fiancé of Susan Fletcher
- Ensei Tankado — The author of Digital Fortress and a disgruntled former NSA employee
- Commander Trevor Strathmore — NSA Deputy Director of Operations and main antagonist
- Phil Chartrukian — Sys-Sec Technician
- Greg Hale — NSA Cryptogropher
- Leland Fontaine — Director of NSA
- "Hulohot" — An assassin hired to locate the Passkey and secondary antagonist
- Midge Milken — Fontaine's internal security analyst
- Chad Brinkerhoff — Fontaine's personal assistant
- "Jabba" — NSA's senior System Security Officer
- Tokugen Numataka — Japanese Executive attempting to purchase Digital Fortress.
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