A dead pigeon discovered a few weeks ago in a UK chimney may be able to provide new answers to the secrets of World War II. Unfortunately, British cryptographers at the country’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have been unable to crack the code encrypting a message the bird was tasked with sending and say they are confident it cannot be decoded “without access to the original cryptographic material.”

Code breakers believe there are at least two possibilities for how the message was encrypted, and why it’s so hard to decrypt. It may be based on a “onetime pad” that uses a random set of letters (known only to the sender and the recipient) or on a now probably destroyed code book designed specifically for a single operation or mission.

We didn't get any messages and Blackadder definitely did not shoot this delicious plump breasted pigeon.

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Isn't that something. One time pad is supposedly the best in such cases.