28-10-2020, 08:34 PM
Grfgaftt,
Of course such a system is more easily discovered, when it is the simplest of its type. And it easily fits a pattern because with a few hints, we can see what the pattern is. *if* we already know the pattern. In the example of the peony, Latin language and Latin script provide the patterns.
More complex variations of the system are possible depending of the mathematical formula.
There is nothing to indicated any such system applies to the VMs. However, using the Ms as an example, there is more to be considered than the system itself - both the script and the language are unknown.
If I chose a specific VMs glyph and asked what glyph came one, five or ten spaces after it - what is the answer? It takes an alphabetic sequence in order to try to discover the system. The "4 x 17" symbol sequence might be a possibility, but it has problems. And not knowing the language means there is no pattern yet established. How can a correct word be confirmed in some obscure language and dialect?
Any system as a single device is not sufficient on its own to disguise a hidden textual communication. Therefore a combination of factors can be used to create a more sophisticated situation - a more secure communication for the potential correspondents, a text more difficult to understand without the key to decryption. And this is not about the development of some level on anachronistic complexity, as it is about a quirky, sophisticated interpretation of tradition. Somethings that have long gone unseen* - traditions long unknown and unrecognized. * Unseen in part because of the the use of intentional ambiguity and the use of combined images.
Whatever the method used, the best way to send a hidden message is to create something as close to a one-way cypher as possible, but which can be decrypted by a specific process. Then send those instructions in a code that is reversible, and which has been placed in an obscure but subtly significant location.
Of course such a system is more easily discovered, when it is the simplest of its type. And it easily fits a pattern because with a few hints, we can see what the pattern is. *if* we already know the pattern. In the example of the peony, Latin language and Latin script provide the patterns.
More complex variations of the system are possible depending of the mathematical formula.
There is nothing to indicated any such system applies to the VMs. However, using the Ms as an example, there is more to be considered than the system itself - both the script and the language are unknown.
If I chose a specific VMs glyph and asked what glyph came one, five or ten spaces after it - what is the answer? It takes an alphabetic sequence in order to try to discover the system. The "4 x 17" symbol sequence might be a possibility, but it has problems. And not knowing the language means there is no pattern yet established. How can a correct word be confirmed in some obscure language and dialect?
Any system as a single device is not sufficient on its own to disguise a hidden textual communication. Therefore a combination of factors can be used to create a more sophisticated situation - a more secure communication for the potential correspondents, a text more difficult to understand without the key to decryption. And this is not about the development of some level on anachronistic complexity, as it is about a quirky, sophisticated interpretation of tradition. Somethings that have long gone unseen* - traditions long unknown and unrecognized. * Unseen in part because of the the use of intentional ambiguity and the use of combined images.
Whatever the method used, the best way to send a hidden message is to create something as close to a one-way cypher as possible, but which can be decrypted by a specific process. Then send those instructions in a code that is reversible, and which has been placed in an obscure but subtly significant location.