(14-04-2019, 01:26 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To be honest I have no idea how you guys transformed the text. Nablator, you seem to use lots of nulls to evoke Voynichese structure? But I don't understand the rest.
I don't exactly have any nulls, only a lot of ways to encipher the same plaintext, some of them longer than others. The variability has a cost, because the choice of one possibility among many is information stored in the ciphertext that could be extracted from it - theoretically it could be used to store more meaningful information but I don't expect a human could do it so it is wasted: one possibility is selected randomly. The ciphertext:plaintext ratio can be improved with a better key, bringing it closer to 2.5. Also, by using less common combinations of glyphs more often, but then it does not match Voynichese very well.
It was one of my first attempts at optimization, using VMS glyph trigram counts only for scoring the result of encryption of a short sample of Latin text. I was pleasantly surprised to see some properties of the VMS naturally emerge in this experiment, without a dictionary of Voynichese: word lengths and apparent prefixes and agglutination look good.
