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Not everyone knows about strong crypto...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Apr 19 13:13:33 2006
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:10:49 -0400
It seems not everyone has gotten the message that monoalphabetic
substitution was broken many hundreds of years ago. Excerpt:
The recently arrested "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, Bernardo
Provenzano, wrote notes using an encryption scheme similar to the one
used by Julius Caesar more than 2,000 years ago, according to a
biography of Italy's most wanted man.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/mafiaboss_tec.html?source=rss
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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