OT news / p2pnet: Recently arrested Mafia don Bernardo Provenzano used encryption similar to that used by Julius Caesar, says a biography written by journalists Salvo Palazzolo and Ernesto Oliva.

No, Provenzano had no connections to the RIAA or MPAA.

But he was accused of, "numerous murders, including the 1992 killings of two judges for which he was sentenced to life in jail," says the Discovery Channel as per slashdot.

"Also known as ‘Binnu u tratturi’ (Binnu the tractor) because of his reputation for mowing down people in his youth, Provenzano had been on the run for more than 40 years, many of them spent writing cryptograms on little pieces of paper, known in Sicilian dialect as pizzini," says The Discovery Channel, adding:

"At least one coded note, published in the Web site’s biography, has a strong resemblance to what’s known as Caesar cipher, an encryption scheme used by Julius Caesar to protect important military messages."

Also See:
Discovery Channel - Mafia Boss’s Encrypted Messages Deciphered, April 17, 2006
slashdot - Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured, April 18, 2006

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