[Article] Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script

[ReneZ]

I know it seems like a bad idea for the putative 15th C Voynich author to apply a one-way (irreversible) cipher, since it would make the result meaningless. However, since what we have is effectively meaningless after countless years of analysis, it is hard to argue that the text cannot be the result of an irreversible cipher.

I agree with Donald Fisk about the paper. However, there are a few rather important mistakes. I am writing a commentary that I will put up in the coming days.

Still, the strange and very close correspondence in Figure 4 is hard to explain. It is one of these statistics that really 'stand out' (just like figure 5, for that matter), and it deserves to be analysed further, as it may give an important clue.