18-03-2019, 11:09 PM
(18-03-2019, 10:49 PM)DonaldFisk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-03-2019, 09:55 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-03-2019, 06:18 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm playing with it, so I hope that Don doesn't publish a solution until somebody gets it right.
I will be very impressed by whomever manages to decrypt it and identify the source, because I have looked up every single significant text of the 14th and 15th centuries that I can think of or identify, and I haven't found a single one that begins with a letter pattern that would match Donald's ciphertext. I'm sure I'm missing something, obviously, but this is a pretty interesting challenge.
There's an error in your reasoning, and when I wrote "roughly contemporary" I meant plus or minus a century.
This is an interesting thread, as we're looking at the problem from the other end: instead of trying to decrypt the text, we're looking at ways of encrypting texts, i.e. putting ourselves in the shoes of whoever created the Voynich Manuscript.
Aha! You also have a suffix for a space between words, as you mentioned that the word breaks are significant.
In this case, the beginning of your text must be the beginning of Machiavelli's Il Principe:
"Tutti gli Stati, tutti i dominii ..."
The repetition of "Tutti ", including the space after it, matches the repetition of "qodom qodeey otaiin", and then in the second one the following word "i " including the space after it, explains the repetition "otaiin otaiin". And the "i+space" sequences at the end of "gli " and "Stati " explain the additional occurrences of "otaiin" as the 5th and 8th words.