16-06-2017, 11:32 PM
Keep in mind that all pre-modern ciphertexts are several orders of magnitude smaller than the VM. The large ones are the length of a note, a paragraph....
The VM is an entire MS, hundreds of pages. The more complex your proposed cipher becomes, the less likely it has been used to encode and decode this text.
Additionally, there are indications that the VM is similar to manuscripts that were carried around by professionals. Quick reference stuff, not desk-cipherdisk-takes-two-hours-to-read-a-sentence stuff...
The VM is an entire MS, hundreds of pages. The more complex your proposed cipher becomes, the less likely it has been used to encode and decode this text.
Additionally, there are indications that the VM is similar to manuscripts that were carried around by professionals. Quick reference stuff, not desk-cipherdisk-takes-two-hours-to-read-a-sentence stuff...