..Vinny-puzzle style (though I'm sure the one in this article isn't nearly as hard ;-))
Basically, the judge presiding over suspected copyright violations by the author of The DaVinci Code to the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail had quite the sense of humor

In his report after the case there were some odd letters italicized. This is what all the letters are (and no, no official source has released a solution): smithcodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz
Full article:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=11990334&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews