13-07-2020, 10:34 PM
(13-07-2020, 10:00 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't think anyone would disagree that a large proportion of filler text could be used to mask a message. Steganography has been around for a long time and also existed in the Middle Ages.
What is at issue here is whether convincing filler can be created that has the same properties as Voynichese.
The term "steganography" goes back to Trithemius in the late 15th century. Do you have any examples of filler text being used in the early 15th century or before?
It does not seem difficult to produce convincing filler text that has the same kind of properties as Voynichese. If I gave you a pen and asked you to manually write down invented Voynichese like text, I don't think it should be that difficult for you. Human generated text is necessarily different from that formally generated using a specific algorithm.