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                [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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