Topic: Mafia Boss uses Caeser Shift Encryption [math|news]

[Perspective]

Heh, I thought this was pretty funny. A huge mafia boss used a simple +3 Caeser shift to encrypt the names of people in his messages. We had to solve these things by hand in my discrete math course, it probably takes less than a second to crack a it with a computer

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/mafiaboss_tec.html?source=rss

[Rob]

I got an encrypted note from the Mafia once - It made me an offer I couldn't understand.

[Dumah]

I got an encrypted note from the Mafia once - It made me an offer I couldn't understand.

9/10

[JaWiB]

I read (ok, saw it posted, maybe skimmed it) this a few days ago on /. Pretty dumb if that mafia boss actually thought it would keep the names secret. Given how strong the Caesar cipher is, he might as well have written in pig-latin 

[Perspective]

I got an encrypted note from the Mafia once - It made me an offer I couldn't understand.