[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[ReneZ]

TLDR I think that, if we must totally discard the phonetically-written-weird-language hypothesis, these three experts are right and the Voynich manuscript is either totally meaningless or undecipherable.

Their calculations are (from a summary reading) based on a brute force approach, for two specific cases. Brute force can usually be avoided by doing something more clever.
Many of the statistics we already have are making both specific cases rather unlikely.

The lack of repeating strings remains an interesting problem that has not yet been addressed very deeply. A verbose encryption with some degree of freedom would explain this anomaly easily, and explain why all previous attempts have failed. (Just one example).