The Voynich Ninja

@ stefan

Quote: Most people here assume that the source language of VMS is Latin, Italian or a German language. Because they are fixated on this assumption, they fail to notice that there were a multitude of other languages and writing systems in Europe and elsewhere.

I wasn't talking about languages, but about a substitution cipher.

Quote:Strangely enough, simply trying out code blocks would have worked for both substitution and any sophisticated encryption – provided that the ‘experts’ with their computers had taken into account ALL the languages that existed at the time. I'm afraid they didn't.

That is a thesis that has not yet been proven.

Quote:Correct. But you yourself are contributing to this, aren't you?

No, my contribution was meant to be supportive...

(31-01-2026, 07:50 PM)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ stefan

I wasn't talking about languages, but about a substitution cipher.

I was talking about „most people“ and their assumptions, which gain not any validity by repetition and distribution. 

Quote:Strangely enough, simply trying out code blocks would have worked for both substitution and any sophisticated encryption – provided that the ‘experts’ with their computers had taken into account ALL the languages that existed at the time. I'm afraid they didn't.

What are you quoting here? I did not write that first sentence. Who did?
I wrote about „brute force“, this is just testing all combinations of all words across all languages. Would be no problem for modern computer systems, neither for substitution, nor for enciphered texts.

Quote:That is a thesis that has not yet been proven.

To be clear: it is a thesis that „world‘s best cryptologists“ (who? where? when?) tried to break any encoding with all options and methods for ALL languages. 
I doubt that.