23-07-2016, 11:28 PM
Well there were things in human history well in advance of their time (as we perceive that time) - the Antikythera stuff being perhaps the most often quoted.
To come up with the same thing one needs to work in the same direction, and with the progress of cryptography it's just possible that noone worked in the same direction no more. This only suggests that the mechanism is (probably) inherently trivial; what makes it complicated is some weird combination of simple procedures.
Anyway, my own approach is to be "Voynich-theory-independent" - that is, to utilize as far as possible methodologies invariant to whether VMS is cipher- or natural language-based and to not make a choice between these two hypotheses earlier that one really needs it. After all, a natural language may be also (although highly formally) considered as a kind of cipher.
I just stand against calling anything "proven" when it is not actually proven. In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there are plenty of arguments against the natural language hypothesis, for example. It is far not as solid as rock.
To come up with the same thing one needs to work in the same direction, and with the progress of cryptography it's just possible that noone worked in the same direction no more. This only suggests that the mechanism is (probably) inherently trivial; what makes it complicated is some weird combination of simple procedures.
Anyway, my own approach is to be "Voynich-theory-independent" - that is, to utilize as far as possible methodologies invariant to whether VMS is cipher- or natural language-based and to not make a choice between these two hypotheses earlier that one really needs it. After all, a natural language may be also (although highly formally) considered as a kind of cipher.
I just stand against calling anything "proven" when it is not actually proven. In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there are plenty of arguments against the natural language hypothesis, for example. It is far not as solid as rock.