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Spaniard claims WWII WAR HERO pigeon code crack. Explain please

Charles 9

No, the true strength of the one-time pad is that it's literally impossible to determine the actual message without foreknowledge of it. The reason being a properly-used OTP cipher can actually be deciphered into ANY message of the same or shorter length. The ONLY determining factor in OTP is the pad itself.

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