Matching planet labels

[oshfdk]

If you are new to the subject, maybe you haven't read about conditional character entropy yet.

Thanks for the tip, I'm not really new. I've been passively reading the Voynich maillist since ~2008 or maybe even earlier. About two years ago I decided to make analyzing Voynich MS one of my hobbies, so I occasionally spend some free time on this. I like it and I use it as the perfect fool-proof learning tool, you can throw all kinds of analysis or computational models at VMS, and it will never break :)

I usually work under assumption that VMS "code" is a method of secret writing that can produce what appears as different Voynichese given the same plaintext and vice versa. If this method works on character level, has few or no nulls and is additive in nature, then in general the longer the word or phrase you encode the longer the result. Under these assumptions it makes sense to compare the lengths of various labels even if we have no idea about the specifics of the algorithm used.