16-03-2016, 02:19 AM
(16-03-2016, 01:01 AM)Davidsch wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Nice idea, but such coding is way too complex for that exact time according to several cipher books (i will remain in the years 1400-1475)
Anyway following the question of this thread, "Alternatives to alphabet?" what do you propose ?
Personally, I think decoding based on analysis of the structure of the VMS text, which does not follow common systems of the time, is going to be more fruitful than excluding systems that were not common.
Did you know the video tape systems were invented a century before they actually came into commercial production? Inventions are usually known by the most prominent person who used or promoted them, but those "inventors" are almost always following on the coattails of mavericks and inventive people who created such things decades earlier who used them rather than documenting or selling them. Bell didn't invent the telephone. Meucci did it long before, but Bell saw Meucci's papers and had the visibility and ambition to claim it as his own.
Chart systems were common in the 16th and 17th centuries but that usually means SOMEONE was using them in the preceding century. Code wheels existed in the late 15th century, but that means someone (probably in the Arabic world, which was a couple of centuries ahead of the western world in terms of cipher science) probably created them earlier than that.