A key to understand the VMS

[ThomasCoon]

Incidentally, I think you are engaging in a bit of projection in that the "fallible tactic" you accuse me of is one most frequently employed by cipher theorists - using different cipher methods to account for different properties of the text and then asserting that we're looking at a "mixed cipher system" or some such, when of course such a thing can never be demonstrated to actually exist.

Touché. That is a common "modus operandi" of the cipher theorists also. And you're right; this objection hasn't been fleshed out before (to my knowledge) and Torsten's thread wouldn't be the right place to do it. Sometime this week, I'll try to make a separate thread for it.