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Re: Not everyone knows about strong crypto...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mis@seiden.com)
Wed Apr 19 22:27:47 2006
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:37:54 -0700
From: mis@seiden.com
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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In-Reply-To: <877j5lzjly.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
and a second data point, not everyone in the mafia chooses good passphrases;
a few years ago the government got a black bag warrant (once and a
renewal) to install some still undescribed keystroke monitoring
technology on nicky scarfo jr's pc, to find out the pgp key of a
spreadsheet of a smalltime mafioso whose hard drive they'd already
taken a copy of.
it turned out to be his father's federal prison number.
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:10:49AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
>
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