[split] Verbose cipher?

[ReneZ]

Back on the topic of this thread, the work by Koen and Marco was of course intended to see how one can bring the entropy of the MS text to a level compatible with known plain texts by combining characters, i.e. trying to identify components of a verbose cipher. In the course of that, they had many dozens of different 'alphabets', as the plots at Koen's blog shows.

As far as I recall, this iterative process did not include the option to 'undo' earlier combinations as a next step. If that would be allowed, the number of different 'alphabets' grows even further. Another thing they did not do was to consider certain characters as equivalent. Doing that really explodes the number of possibilities.

If one would allow all that, indeed a genetic algorithm seems like the most suitable approach.

Now coming to the VCI 'alphabet', this is not a transcription / transliteration, but an interpretation, and it is based on just one of the above-mentioned myriad of possible 'alphabets', all of which are equally (im-)probable.
It is based completely on speculation.