Re: Can anyone crack pigeon's wartime code?

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MIXZ1 join:2001-01-02 Mexico	reply to Link Logger Re: Can anyone crack pigeon's wartime code? Based on a "one-time pad" it will not be decoded without the pad, which is long gone. If used correctly OTP messages cannot be broken. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
MIXZ1 join:2001-01-02 Mexico	to forum · permalink · 2012-11-26 08:38:36 ·
Link Logger Premium,MVM join:2001-03-29 Calgary, AB kudos:3	said by MIXZ1: Based on a "one-time pad" it will not be decoded without the pad, which is long gone. If used correctly OTP messages cannot be broken. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad 'Correctly' is always the question. Even in the Wiki article it list examples where OTP codes have been cracked because of incorrectly generated pads. Of course all WWII pads were supposed to be destroyed, so determining correctness might be a bit difficult, but if someone could comment on how those pads were initially created, then perhaps flaws in the randomness (if they exist) could be used to crack this code. Blake -- Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool
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