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Steganography is certainly possible, though it would be wasteful: the plaintext to VMs text ratio would be very low. This seems unlikely, when the standard practice was to use abbreviations in order to save space. The rule for extracting the meaningful part of the text could be arbitrarily hard, could depend on graphical placement or small irregularities in the writing, making it unlikely that it will ever be found. It could also be something very simple like an acrostic, or a bit more complex like taking the nth glyph (modulo the length of the word) of the nth word, who knows...
It seems to me that the gap between a simple substitution cipher (or no cipher at all, or substitution ciphers with homophones and nulls) and more secure but unwieldy, anachronistic or wasteful techniques such as nomenclators, codes, and stenography needs to be investigated more.
A nice article by Nick Pelling about cryptography in the 15th century:
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Steganography is certainly possible, though it would be wasteful: the plaintext to VMs text ratio would be very low. This seems unlikely, when the standard practice was to use abbreviations in order to save space. The rule for extracting the meaningful part of the text could be arbitrarily hard, could depend on graphical placement or small irregularities in the writing, making it unlikely that it will ever be found. It could also be something very simple like an acrostic, or a bit more complex like taking the nth glyph (modulo the length of the word) of the nth word, who knows...
It seems to me that the gap between a simple substitution cipher (or no cipher at all, or substitution ciphers with homophones and nulls) and more secure but unwieldy, anachronistic or wasteful techniques such as nomenclators, codes, and stenography needs to be investigated more.
A nice article by Nick Pelling about cryptography in the 15th century:
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