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Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-heard-of-pgp-and-email dept.

boggis writes "Discovery is running a story on Bernardo Provenzano, the recently arrested 'boss of bosses' of the Sicilian Mafia. He apparently wrote notes to his henchmen using a modified form of the Caesar Cipher, which was easily cracked by the police and resulted in further arrests of collaborators. Discovery's cryptography expert describes it as a code that 'will keep your kid sister out'."

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  1. How many letters are in the alphabet? by smaerd · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "A" is 4, "B" is 5, "C" is 6 and so on until the letter Z , which corresponds to number 24," wrote Palazzolo and Oliva.

    Apparently Palazzolo and Oliva can't add.

    zkdw d gxpedvv

    1. Re:How many letters are in the alphabet? by bano · · Score: 1, Redundant

      The Italian alphabet only uses 24 letters.