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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
