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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