Not everyone knows about strong crypto...
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed Apr 19 11:10:49 EDT 2006
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 at piermont.com
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