[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[MarcoP]

Before 1500, ciphers never concealed spaces. So the most likely scenario by a mile is that full spaces in the Voynich Manuscript are indeed word separators (to a large degree). (Half spaces we can talk about elsewhere.)

This isn't a cryptographic lemma, this is an historical axiom - ignore it at your peril.

Hi Nick,
I see the uniform layout of cipher characters in diplomatic ciphers as space concealment. What else can it be?

PS: For those who are not familiar with this, I attach a detail of cipher-text and clear-text from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that was mentioned on Nick's blog.